by Álvaro Pombo · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408069003
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«La fortuna de Matilda Turpin» is the novel by Álvaro Pombo, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Matilda Turpin, a well-off woman, has been married for thirteen years to a Philosophy professor and has three children when she decides to embark on a career in high finance. The narrative, which begins and ends in a house on a cliff in northern Spain, in the fictional place of Lobreña, explores the cost of that decision and the questions about when in life one discovers that one has made a mistake.
It won the Premio Planeta de Novela in 2006. It belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection.
Aimed at readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and at those seeking an award-winning work about the balance between professional and personal life.
Álvaro Pombo García de los Ríos is a Spanish poet, novelist and activist.
