Last Evenings with Teresa by Juan Marsé - ISBN: 9781035421886
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Post-war Barcelona love story: forbidden desire, ambition, and hope’s triumph.

Last Evenings with Teresa

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2025

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  • Paperback

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    21 April 2026

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Summary

‘One of Spain’s most acclaimed writers’ - New York Times

‘Spain’s finest contemporary novelist’ - Guardian

A REDISCOVERED POST-WAR LOVE STORY FROM ONE OF SPAIN’S MOST ACCLAIMED AUTHORS.

1950s Barcelona. A rebellious daughter of a wealthy family meets an ambitious rogue at a party.

Teresa was born with every advantage in life - beautiful, rich, charming and clever. Another left-wing university student in the wealthy neighbourho…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781035421886
ISBN-10:1035421887
Author:Juan Marsé, Nick Caistor
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
Imprint:Mountain Leopard Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:432
Release Date:21 April 2026
Weight:299g
Dimensions:124mm x 191mm x 30mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Spain’s finest contemporary novelist * Guardian *Juan Marsé’s contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable * TLS *Last Evenings with Teresa has everything one can ask of a novel; it seems to have been written in a state of grace * Javier Cercas *Between illusions and realities, with his own free creative will - the opposite of the recipe for a social novel - Juan Marsé offered a memorable panorama of 1950s Barcelona and its wild heroism * Lluís Izquierdo *I consider Juan Marsé the best storyteller Spanish literature has given us in many decades * Ignacio Echevarría *He has never written a single page where something interesting isn’t happening * Eduardo Mendoza *One of Spain’s most acclaimed writers * New York Times *

About The Author

Juan Marsé

Juan Marse is one of Spain’s most celebrated writers. Last Evenings with Teresa (1966), now in English translation for the first time, is considered his masterpiece. In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most important literary honour. He died in 2020.

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