by Ana María Matute · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467267914
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«Luciérnagas» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (315 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows children who grow up amid the miseries of the adult world and, from their innocent gaze, become a light of hope: little fireflies that shine in the night. Through their friendship, the work explores loss, identity and the difficulty of understanding a social environment broken by war.
The edition of «Luciérnagas» is from 2016; the work was originally published in 1993 and is classified under Literature and Fiction.
For readers of Spanish and historical fiction interested in stories about childhood in times of war.
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.
