by Ana María Matute · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423310722
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«Fiesta al Noroeste» is the short novel by Ana María Matute, published by Destino in paperback (130 pages, in Spanish).
The funeral of a child run over by a circus cart in a village in northwestern Spain brings to light the tense relationship between stepbrothers Pablo and Juan. Matute recreates the biblical theme of Cain and Abel to portray Francoist Spain and its rural atmosphere.
It won the Café Gijón Prize in 1952. This edition belongs to the Destinolibro collection, number 106.
For readers of Spanish literature interested in classics and in the works 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.
