by Carmen Laforet · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483280003
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Nada is the first novel by Barcelona writer Carmen Laforet, an existentialist work that portrays the stagnation and poverty of post-war Spain. The novel follows Andrea, a young orphan who moves to Barcelona to study, but her illusions are frustrated upon arriving at her grandmother's house, where she faces a bleak reality and discovers her family's secrets.
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.
