High Tackle: A rugby novel

[Tarrako]

"Lluís Pujol, a rugby coach, returns to Tarragona. He comes to train the local rugby team and to try to win back the woman he loves. A look at professional sport, sports journalism and the opium of the people. Also in impossible relationships, lost love and the Oval Universe, everything that is thrown comes back. To say that the novel's plot is unexpected may surprise the reader. That's part of its charm. It's not what one expects when opening the book.

"Lost loves. The memory can be capricious. Often, it seduces oblivion. Sport is a tangle. It is like a spider's web made of empty information that only sells images and unimportant facts. Professionalism at the cost of corrupting its essence while some surrender this essence in favour of frivolous things. But if the essence remains, there's still hope."

"On those Saturday afternoons I watched rugby matches. The excitement was greater than that of football. In rugby there are no hiding places. "Just as there are none in this steady-handed novel, some losers are, in fact, winners."

Good novels shouldn't be round but oval."

I've translated the rugby novel "Placaje Alto" from Spanish into English. You can find the novel on Amazon.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

Thanks for sharing. I am confused, though, maybe you can help me out. I instinctively associate novels to fiction, which is wrong, but then noticed the character's name is the same as the author's, which suggest non fiction.
But then i read the summary and it appears to be fiction.
So if i understand correctly, this is a fiction novel where the character's name happens to be the same as the author's, correct?

 

[Tarrako]

Thank you very much for your interest.
Yes, is a fiction novel.
Lluís Pujol is my grandfather's name, not mine. My name is Àngel Luis Carrillo Pujol. My first name is Àngel. Carrillo is my first surname. My grandfather fought in the Spanish Civil War, and well, it's a tribute to him and to all those anonymous heroes who lost the war.