Join us for another Mannheim Book Club event! Read the book and come talk to our super interesting and diverse group of people about what was interesting/ different/ thought-provoking/ infuriating/ blah/ absolutely wonderful about it! :) Our February read is a powerful contemporary Spanish novel of love and hate, of loyalty and betrayal, **Outlaws by Javier Cercas.**

On a summer day at the arcade, timid sixteen-year-old Ignacio Cañas encounters two charismatic rebels: El Zarco (“Blue Eyes”) and his gorgeous girl, Tere. Entranced, he crosses the border into their dangerous world, becoming their partner in crimes that quickly escalate.

Twenty-five years later, Tere materializes in Cañas's office, needing help. Cañas has settled back into middle-class life, becoming a successful defense lawyer. Zarco has matured into a convict of some infamy. Yet somehow, with new stakes, this three-way affair will begin again.

With his usual vivacity, Javier Cercas surveys the borders between right and wrong, respectability and criminality, and to what extent we can pass between them-or determine on which side we ultimately fall. This brilliantly plotted tale firmly establishes him as one of the most rewarding novelists writing today.

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