by Ana María Matute · Destino Ediciones · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423307265
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«Primera memoria» is the coming-of-age novel by Ana María Matute, published by Destino Ediciones in paperback (245 pages, in Spanish).
Set against the backdrop of the civil war, Matia and her cousin Borja live at their grandmother's house, in an insular world halfway between protection and mystery. Through Matia's gaze —a girl without a mother and with a missing father—, the novel narrates her awakening to adolescence and the discovery of the complexity of the adult world.
«Primera memoria», first installment of the trilogy «Los mercaderes» by Ana María Matute, was originally published in 1959 and won the Premio Nadal that same year.
Recommended for readers of Spanish fiction 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.
