A masterpiece of contemporary Spanish literature, Si se dice que caí is one of the most ambitious and courageous novels of our time, a stylistic kaleidoscope in which post-war memory reverberates. Written at the end of the sixties and prohibited by censorship, it constitutes a secret and nostalgic farewell to childhood, as well as a sordid and poetic picture of life during Francoism. It is also one of the author's most personal novels, since, according to Marsé himself, when he wrote it he only thought of the anonymous neighbors of a poor neighborhood that does not exist in Barcelona, ​​of the furious boys who shared with him the leprous and atrocious games, fear, hunger and cold, in his own childhood and adolescence. The subtle narrative framework is made up of diverse, contrasting and even contradictory voices, voices that surround the imposture and the equivocation, that weave and unravel a thick web of signs and references and an ambiguous system of echoes and resonances. -- Amazon.com.