I doubt if we will see a more exhilarating novel published this year, and you don't have to take a reviewer's word for it: can 600,000 Italians be wrong?
His fiction is translated into more than 20 languages, with four novels published by Serpent's Tail in the UK.
Mercurio's impressively economical adaptation – the opening scenes are a model of how to rattle through chapters of back-story – often feels more like another famous novel published three years before Lawrence's: F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
They became best-sellers, too; the last of them, "Clear and Present Danger," which appeared in 1989, is reported to have sold more copies than any other novel published in the nineteen-eighties, and Clancy now probably earns more for his books than any other writer in the world.
Three more novels followed, the last published posthumously: The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964), and The Third Policeman (1967).
Laforet died in 2004, having published five more novels and a book of short stories.
Since then he has published seven more novels, some featuring characters from The Graduate.
Yglesias, like Enrique, sold his first novel at 16, dropped out of high school, then published seven more novels.
After "The Gallery," he published two more novels, both of which were dismally reviewed and disappeared quickly.
After "The Price of Salt," Highsmith published twenty more novels, many of which became movies, and nine short-story collections.
