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...FINAL HOURS (273 pp.)-José Suárez Carreño-Knopf...
...Franco Spain in the past three months, and the second to show that thoughtful and compassionate Spanish writers take a grim view of life. In The Hive (TIME, Oct. 5), Camilo José Cela highlighted the plight of poverty-stricken Madrileños. In The Final Hours, José Suárez Carreño, 39, portrays the night life of Madrid and offers a world where love is impossible and the human condition hopeless...
...Author Suárez' soberly bitter story centers on three characters and is concentrated in one night. Carmen is the young daughter of middle-class parents who has turned prostitute to help pay the bills. Angel Aguado is middleaged, rich and impotent. He seeks "a purity based on frustrated sexuality," and Carmen is the girl he has "elected for his despair." Manolo is a street boy possessed of enormous dignity, though he lives on petty chores and thievery. He is deeply attracted to Carmen, though he has seen her only at a distance...
...weapon, set off unintentionally, killed both. At Columbus Day ceremonies next day, someone tossed a bomb, hidden in a bouquet, at members of the junta: Lieut. Colonels Marcos Pérez Jiménez and Luis Felipe Llovera Páez and their civilian satellite, President Germán Suárez Flamerich. Military policemen quickly scooped up the bomb, but it was a dud anyway. Twenty-four hours later, Llovera Páez broadcast that the junta had "crushed" a countrywide uprising, with gunfights in 16 towns...
...Tolstoy Home, by Tatiana Su-khotin-Tolstoy. Life with a father who also happened to be one of the eccentric geniuses of modern history (TIME, April...