by Carme Riera · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466307239
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«La mitad del alma» is the contemporary fiction novel by Carme Riera, published by Punto de Lectura in hardback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The narrator sees her identity waver when she receives documents that question her origins. To reconstruct her past, she investigates the disappearance of a woman named Cecilia Balaguer or Ballester, which occurred in Portbou in 1960, in a plot that ends up involving the reader in the search for truth. A reflection on identity and memory.
The novel was originally published as La meitat de l'ànima (2004) and won the Premi Sant Jordi (2003) and the Premi de Narrativa Maria Àngels Anglada (2005).
A title suitable for readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy personal enigmas and plots about family past.
Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
