by Frank McCourt · RBA Coleccionables, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447315314
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«Las cenizas de Ángela» is the autobiography of Frank McCourt, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback, with 381 pages, in Spanish.
Frank McCourt recalls his childhood in Limerick, Ireland, during the Great Depression: the family lives in hardship, father Malachy spends his wages on drink, and mother Angela can barely feed her children. The harshness is balanced with humour and compassion, and the narrative shows how family affection helps one survive adversity.
Translation by Alejandro Pareja of the original «Angela's Ashes: A Memoir». 1999 edition, in the Nueva narrativa collection. Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997.
For readers of memoirs and stories of personal overcoming, with an interest in Ireland in the first half of the twentieth century.
Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.
