by Carmen Laforet · RBA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447300839
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Nada» is the novel by Carmen Laforet, published by RBA in paperback (287 pages, in Spanish).
Andrea, a young student, arrives in postwar Barcelona to start university and moves into her grandparents' and uncles' home. There she discovers a suffocating family atmosphere, full of deceit and secrets, which confronts her with the pettiness of her surroundings and the loss of innocence.
The work was originally published in 1944, the year it won the Premio Nadal, and received the Premio Fastenrath in 1948.
Novel suitable for readers aged 15 and over and for those interested in postwar Spanish literature.
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.
