by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423323098
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«Luciérnagas» is the novel by Ana María Matute set during the Spanish Civil War, published by Ediciones Destino in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
In besieged Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, Soledad, a teenager from a well-off family whose father is persecuted, witnesses the collapse of her world. Alongside other children and young people forced to grow up quickly, she discovers that friendship and first love are a refuge from the fear and cruelty of the conflict.
Volume 710 of the Áncora y Delfín collection. The work had previously been published as «En esta tierra»; this edition appears with the title «Luciérnagas», recovered after censorship problems.
For readers of Spanish fiction and stories about the Spanish Civil War told from the perspective of teenagers.
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.
