Ana Maria Matute

• May-1989
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• Nov-1996
• / Literary
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The subheading Disordered Diary, which appears at the start of this novel, is all too apropos. While there are passages of beautiful writing here, and the translation flows easily, it is unrelentingly difficult to grab a foothold in this dense work f...

• Mar-1997
• / General Fiction
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A tragic tale of hatred between two half-brothers, Celebration in the Northwest (Fiesta al Noroeste) is a gripping novel by Ana María Matute, one of twentieth-century Spain’s most important writers. At the center of the novel are confessions that...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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Fireflies, although set in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, could readily take place in a bellicose situation anywhere in the world. It contains an exposé of the chasm between generations, between rich and poor, between materialism and ideali...

• Apr-2020
• / General Fiction
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''This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds''

Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is...