by Josefina Aldecoa · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422668848
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«La fuerza del destino» is a novel by Josefina Aldecoa, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (232 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriela returns to Spain after half a lifetime in exile in Mexico. In a country in full ferment, she discovers that her time has passed and feels out of place. The novel follows her solitary evocation of the past and, through memories, weaves a new and final understanding of a life that no longer belongs to her.
The work was published in 1997 and belongs to the Spanish novel of the twentieth century. The Círculo de Lectores edition is hardback with dust jacket.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in memory, exile and the re-encounter with a Spain in full transformation.
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.
