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Un Día Con Suerte
The biggest prize ever offered by the European lottery has been won by a resident of a small town in Girona. What starts out as the happiest day ever for its inhabitants will soon turn into a race against the clock to find the lucky winner and cash in the ticket. A priest with verbal diarrhoea, a retired lady who harbours sexual fantasies involving the butcher, a mayor who has held the post for thirty years and a postman in love with the baker's wife are some of the colourful characters who will make us laugh, cry and enjoy everyday situations taken to extremes. In this comedy full of action and suspense, Carlos J. Server offers a costumbrist setting full of characters truly reminiscent of the style of Berlanga, Billy Wilder or Woody Allen. A novel to be savoured by reading it slowly, if you can...