Noches de San Juan / Nights of San Juan
Novel , 1998
Lumen
In her first novel, both Dionysian and transgressive, Clara Usón depicts the chaotic and marginalized environment of fairground workers, homosexuals, pimps, and transvestites gathered around the festivities of San Juan in Ciutadella. Through the eyes of Juani, an unattractive fair worker with beautiful green eyes, fantastical, pathetic, naive, and cruel, we catch a glimpse of the changing world of nightclubs, fairground attractions, popular celebrations, melodramatic romances, and soap operas in which she moves.