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Andrea, an impoverished eighteen-year-old girl travels to Barcelona to pursue her ambition and study literature at the university. She arrives at night, by train, in a city that immediately imposes its bleak, post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. She makes her way to the home of relatives, a house she has not visited since her childhood, and before long we realise that she has entered a very strange household indeed. Tension between her grandmother, her two eccentric uncles, an aunt, and the housekeeper is present from the moment of her arrival and it grows in claustrophobic intensity as this unforgettable story develops. Nothing describes a young woman's emergence from a life of cloying despair into the fresh new dawn of post-war enlightenment and promise. The spirit of war-torn, brutalised Barcelona - very different from the confident, prosperous Catalan capital we know today - hovers over this beautifully written and minutely observed novel.
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'An intricate and engaging portrait' -- Easy Living
`a welcome rediscovery and a fascinating danse macabre' -- Daily Mail
"Grossman's translation is lithe and supple enough to convey much
of the brilliance of Laforet's description" -- Daily Telegraph, rev'd by Laura Barnett.
'A gothic horror story which deserves the widest possible
readership'
-- Sunday Herald
'The beauty of the prose heightens the ugliness of the world she
inhabits' -- The New Statesman The New Statesman
`This bildungsroman is undoubtedly the most original and
fascinating work revealing the moral vacuum at the heart of Franco's `New
Spain' ...Harvill is to be congratulated.'
-- Independent on Sunday
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`a welcome rediscovery and a fascinating danse macabre' -- Daily Mail
"Grossman's translation is lithe and supple enough to convey much
of the brilliance of Laforet's description" -- Daily Telegraph, rev'd by Laura Barnett.
'A gothic horror story which deserves the widest possible
readership'
-- Sunday Herald
'The beauty of the prose heightens the ugliness of the world she
inhabits' -- The New Statesman The New Statesman
`This bildungsroman is undoubtedly the most original and
fascinating work revealing the moral vacuum at the heart of Franco's `New
Spain' ...Harvill is to be congratulated.'
-- Independent on Sunday
A modern Spanish classic, first published in Spain sixty years ago and translated into eighteen languages, and now available in a sparkling English translation, with a preface by Mario Vargas Llosa.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1843433028
- ISBN 13 9781843433026
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages256
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