by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Destino · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423348466
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«Demonios familiares» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Ediciones Destino in hardback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a small Spanish town in July 1936, it narrates Eva's return to the family home after the burning of the convent where she was a novice. Her father, a paralysed and authoritarian colonel, runs the estate assisted by Yago, a servant with secrets. The encounter with a wounded paratrooper awakens in Eva love, guilt and freedom.
Posthumous work (2014), Ana María Matute's last novel, unfinished. Includes a prologue by Pere Gimferrer and a final note by María Paz Ortuño. Belongs to the Áncora & Delfín collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and of the work of Ana María Matute.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
