by Almudena Grandes · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472234321
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«Malena es un nombre de tango» is the contemporary fiction novel by Almudena Grandes, published in 1994 by Tusquets in paperback (560 pages).
Malena, a twelve-year-old girl, receives an antique emerald from her grandfather that she must keep secret. In her bourgeois Madrid family, she feels different from her twin sister, Reina, and begins to investigate the secrets of her lineage. The women who came before her reflect her fears and her way of loving.
It is part of Tusquets' Andanzas collection, where it is number 211.
For readers of contemporary fiction looking for coming-of-age novels and family memory, with a female protagonist.
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."
