by Carmen Laforet · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423334803
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«Nada» is the novel by Carmen Laforet, published by Planeta Publishing in paperback (275 pages, in Spanish).
Set in post-war Barcelona, the novel follows Andrea, a young woman who arrives in the city to study and moves into the family home, a gloomy place inhabited by uncles of unpredictable character. Through her eyes, Laforet portrays the poverty, stagnation and disillusionment of Spanish society at the time.
First novel by Carmen Laforet, winner of the Premio Nadal in 1944 and the Premio Fastenrath in 1948; originally published in 1944.
For readers interested in classics of twentieth-century Spanish literature and in stories set in the post-war period.
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
