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El Jarama is a 1955 novel by Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio about a group of middle-class youngsters from Madrid meeting for a picnic by the river on a summer day. Its realistic dialog renovated Spanish novels, and it won the Premio Nadal (Nadal Prize) in 1955.
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