by Maria Angels Anglada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423314508
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«Los cercados» is the novel by Maria Angels Anglada, published by Destino in paperback (190 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates partly real events set in federal Ampurdán during the years immediately before the fall of Isabella II. With a poetic and intimate tone, it evokes the tensions and transformations of a turbulent era in Spain, combining history and narrative sensitivity.
Winner of the Josep Pla Prize 1978, it was originally published as Les Closes; this edition, translated from Catalan by Mercè Pons, belongs to the Áncora y Delfín collection (no. 593).
For readers of contemporary fiction and historical narrative set in nineteenth-century Spain.
Maria Àngels Anglada was a Catalan poet and novelist. She was born in Vic, Spain, in 1920. She received a degree in Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. Her first novel, Les Closes , won the 1978 Josep Pla Award. Her 1985 novel Sandàlies d'escuma won the Lletra d'Or Prize. She died in 1999.
