by Josefina R. Aldecoa · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433910608
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«La fuerza del destino» is the contemporary fiction novel by Josefina R. Aldecoa, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (226 pages).
After Franco's death, Gabriela returns from her exile in Mexico and settles on the outskirts of Madrid, near her daughter. Between memory and the present, the novel explores old age, solitude and the traces of the past, with a protagonist who reviews contradictions and unfulfilled desires.
Third and final instalment of the memory trilogy, after Historia de una maestra and Mujeres de negro. Narrativas hispánicas collection, volume 230.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in historical memory, exile and old age.
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.
