by Josefina Aldecoa · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466313315
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«El vergel» is the contemporary fiction novel by Josefina Aldecoa, published by Punto de Lectura in paperback (189 pages, in Spanish).
After her mother's death, a young woman returns to the village where she grew up. There, memories and family secrets force her to reconsider her past and identity. Memory, family relationships and the rural environment structure the novel.
The work was first published in 1988; this edition is from 2004.
For readers of literature and fiction interested in stories about memory, identity and family secrets.
Josefina Aldecoa, originally known as Josefa Rodríguez Álvarez, was a Spanish writer and teacher born in León. She was married to the writer Ignacio Aldecoa, whose surname she adopted for her own literary career after his death. Josefina Aldecoa was the founder and Principal of the Colegio Estilo from 1959 until her death in 2011. She died on 16 March 2011 in Cantabria, due to respiratory problems, at the age of 85.
