LS6 (novel)


LS6 is the first novel by Mario Crespo, published in 2011 by Bohodón Ediciones. The novel was chosen as a Spanish representative at the Festival du Premier roman at Chambéry in 2012.

Summary

LS6 is set in the English city of Leeds on 21 March 2009. It comprises six sections, each named after and associated with a different Leeds postal district, and each narrating the day of a different character. The characters mostly represent the Latin diaspora in Leeds, and the reader learns how, largely without the characters themselves realising, their paths cross in the course of the day. It turns out that in the evening, all attend a play at the West Yorkshire Playhouse entitled The Death of Margaret Thatcher, during which the West Yorkshire Playhouse blows up due to a gas leak.
In order, the sections and their protagonists are:
The novel is explicitly set during the Great Recession which followed the Financial crisis of 2007–2008, with characters musing on these circumstances and on neoliberalism.

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