by Almudena Grandes · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483106556
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«Malena es un nombre de tango» is the novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (560 pages, in Spanish).
Malena receives from her grandfather an ancient emerald that she must keep secret and that will one day save her life. From then on, the girl, who cannot manage to resemble her twin sister Reina, begins to investigate the secrets of her bourgeois Madrid family and discovers an old curse that marked the women who preceded her.
It belongs to the Fábula collection, volume 127.
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."
