Variable Cloud

Literature & Fiction

Carmen Martín Gaite

Contemporary

The Harvill Press

The Back Room

<p>A woman suddenly finds a stranger in her room in the middle of the night and tells him the story of her life</p>

Literary

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Conversaciones Creadoras Inst Ed

Joan Lipman Brown

Houghton Mifflin (Academic)

Lo Que Queda Enterrado (Spanish Edition)

Gaiter

Emc Pub.

Agueda, a 35-year-old woman who has lived and loved hard, has just lost her mother. Finding her precarious equilibrium besieged, she struggles to keep her curiosity about the world intact. In an effort to give her life structure, she returns to her old, unfinished doctoral dissertation: a study of an extravagant and enigmatic 18th-century adventurer. Inexorably, her investigation leads to profound reflections on her own strange childhood, her parents’ equally strange marriage, and her own emotional landscape. Introspective, but with the pace and intrigue of a thriller, Living’s the Strange Thing will keep the reader engrossed until the end. Carmen Martín Gaite is one of Spain’s most distinguished novelists; in 1978, she was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature.

Living's the Strange Thing

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Two women meet again after a long separation with the need to confide in each other and repair their love-damaged lives.

Harvill Press

The Farewell Angel

On the day he is released from prison in Madrid, Leonardo learns of his parents' death in a car crash. He returns to their empty town house, a rich young man now, but with a life to reconstruct out of fragments. At first all he wants is to be atone to took over books, diaries, and old photographs, the mute witnesses to his own childhood and his parents' wretched marriage. But in time he concentrates on the Quinta Blanca, the white house by the cuff edge where his grandmother used to nourish him on stories, especially Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen". When Leonardo revisits this childhood home at Christmas as the guest of its new owner, Casilda, he, too, has the sliver of ice removed from his heart by the one woman capable of doing so, and his own redemption is at hand.The Farewell Angel is about storytelling, about the determining power of stories to harm and to heat. Centered around a lighthouse and the sea-washed rocks beneath it, this haunting novel is a triumph of subtle narrative by the prize-winning author of Variable Cloud.

Farewell Angel

Children's Books

Caperucita en Manhattan

Retahílas (Colección Ancora y delfín, v. 448) (Spanish Edition)

Ediciones Destino

<p>Entre visillo, Premio Nadal 1957, narra la vida en una ciudad de provincias llena de rutina, conservadurismo e hipocresía. A través de la charla aparentemente banal de un grupo de muchachas, conoceremos sus ocupaciones cotidianas, sus angustias, la insalvable tristeza que asoma tras el aburrimiento y la falta de imaginación. La presencia de Pablo Klein, llegado a la ciudad para ocuparse de la clase de alemán del instituto, es el pretexto narrativo que centra la mayor parte de los sucesos, Pablo, persona reservada y observadora, honesta y poco convencional, choca con el ambiente plano y conformista. Con recursos estilísticos bien cuidados y un enfoque directo y realista, Carmen Martín Gaite nos da este retazo de vida española pintado con las tintas de la desilusión, los imposibles y las aceptaciones de una juventud condenada a ver pasar la vida entre visillos.</p>

Entre visillos (Destinolibro, 18) (Spanish Edition)

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