Exploring a boy's childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, Under The Dust is based on the autobiographical experience of Catalan author Jordi Coca. The affecting closeness of the boy's first-person narrative and its pitiless realism set this book apart. The boy's bewildered responses to his father's violence and authoritarianism are played out at home and in a neighbourhood dominated by street gangs, where politics is never more than a block away.

This novel was awarded the Sant Jordi Prize in 2000.

Under the Dust was translated from its original Catalan by Richard Thomson.

Richard was born in London but has lived much of his adult life outside Britain, mainly in Catalunya where he moved in 1986, learning Catalan from friends and television commentary of FC Barcelona matches. He is now a translator and editor and currently lives on a farm in Wales with Sarah and their dogs.

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