Mi 69

David Trueba takes us back to 1969—the year of his birth and a "defining symbol of all things topsy-turvy." Peering out at the world from his mother’s womb, he describes the place he is about to enter as the youngest child of a massive family: the evolution of his own kin and of those sprawling, rapidly changing neighborhoods, alongside the echoes of events unfolding beyond the Spain of the dictatorship’s final years—such as the new approaches to cinema, literature, and music that would ultimately shape his life. The author seeks the keys to his sentimental education and, with his unmistakable natural ease, paints a portrait of an era and a generation.