by Sybille Bedford · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498380545
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«Fragmentos de vida» is the biographical novel by Sybille Bedford, published by Salamandra in paperback (416 pages, in Spanish).
The first-person narrative follows Billi from her childhood in Germany at the end of the Great War to her youth in Italy, England and France. After being orphaned, the protagonist grows up with a self-taught education and begins an itinerant life with her mother, marked by bohemia, love and the artistic and intellectual circles of Sanary-sur-Mer in the 1920s, where she discovers her vocation as a writer.
Novel shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989. Its original title, «Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education», was translated into Spanish by Libertad Aguilera Ballester.
Sándor Márai was a Hungarian writer, poet, and journalist.
