Fiesta para una mujer sola

Two years after winning the Planeta Prize, Ángel Vázquez published Fiesta para una mujer sola (Party for a Solitary Woman), condemned to silence by the Franco regime, in 1964. The novel contrasts the dreary, slumbering reality of 1960s Spain with the freedom the protagonist experiences in Tangier, an international city where the coexistence of Jews, Muslims, and Christians created a vibrant, sophisticated, and unique atmosphere. Through the love story between a young building surveyor who arrives in the African capital to work and a mature woman bored with her solitude, he explores, with meticulously crafted prose, the limits of freedom and repression in a society marked by dictatorship and conservative morality. An exploration of female sexuality.