by Ana María Matute · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401426049
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«Primera memoria» is the novel by Spanish writer Ana María Matute, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback, with 252 pages, in Spanish.
The story takes place in a Mallorca shaken by the Civil War and follows Matia, Borja and Manuel, three adolescents who watch how the adult world imposes itself on their childhood. Between the cruelty of the conflict and their own discoveries, the novel portrays the loss of innocence, the end of childhood and the weight of memory.
First instalment of the «Los mercaderes» series by Ana María Matute, winner of the Premio Nadal in 1959.
It is suitable reading for those seeking twentieth-century Spanish classics and coming-of-age novels set during the Civil War.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
