by Ana María Matute · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439585442
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«Los soldados lloran de noche» is a historical novel by Ana María Matute, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardback (256 pages, in Spanish).
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Jeza, a mysterious missing soldier, becomes a hero for Manuel and Marta, two children who glimpse the end of their innocence. With a labyrinthine plot and a poetic tone, Ana María Matute reflects on the rules of the adult world, loyalties, betrayals and vital commitment.
Second instalment of the trilogy «Los mercaderes». This edition belongs to the collection «Escritoras de hoy». Fastenrath Prize in 1968.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
