Outlaws

Summary:
They smoke pot, steal, hang out. The leader Zarco, who scares everyone, the seductive Tere with the cruel green eyes, and all the others who have no home. When Ignacio joins them, petty criminals become armed gangsters. Bank robberies, hookers and hard drugs are now their daily routine. Then there is the first death, and Ignacio knows: if he wants to live, he has to get out, even if he will never see the beautiful Tere again. Years later, they meet again in court: Zarco as the defendant and Ignacio as the defense attorney. Stirring and very sensitive, Javier Cercas tells of the torn friendships of a lost youth in Spain.

Authors: Cercas, Javier ; Kultzen, Peter (Trans.
From the author:
Javier Cercas, born in 1962 in Ibahernando in the Spanish Extremadura, lives as a writer, publicist and university lecturer in Girona. He became internationally known with his novel 'Soldiers of Salamis'. Today his work has been translated into more than 30 languages. For 'The False Survivor' (S. Fischer 2017), he received, among others, the Prix du livre européen 2016 and the Chinese Taofen Prize 2015 for the best foreign book.