by Ana María Matute · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423366231
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In 'El río', Ana María Matute evokes childhood with a beauty and tenderness that we only feel when remembering what is unrecoverable. After eleven years of absence, the protagonist returns to the scenes of his childhood, finding the town of Mansilla de la Sierra covered by the waters of the reservoir. From this unreal atmosphere, Matute presents us with short stories that capture magical and unrecoverable moments of childhood, integrating reality and mystery, life and death. With a bittersweet language, 'El río' reveals the fleeting nature of the early years and the imposition of new time over old.
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.
