by Almudena Grandes · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422653073
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«Malena es un nombre de tango» is the literary fiction novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (636 pages, in Spanish).
As a child, Malena receives an antique emerald that her grandfather secretly gives her, convinced that one day it will save her life. Unable to resemble her twin sister, Reina, the protagonist tries to unravel the secrets of her bourgeois Madrid family and a curse that weighs on the Fernández de Alcántara women.
Hardback edition with dust jacket, 636 pages, published in 1995 by Círculo de Lectores in Barcelona.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction who enjoy family sagas and female characters.
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
