A lyrical novel following an idealistic student who explores the power of literature in Franco's Spain. It's the summer of 1963 and Le?n Egea, a cocky nineteen-year-old student and aspiring author, has just finished his first year studying literature at the University of Granada and is starting a summer job as an encyclopedia salesman. Le?n, infuriated by the injustices in Spanish society under the Franco dictatorship, comes to find...