Pilar Quintana
Author
Series
Publisher
ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Formats
Description
PREMIO ALFAGUARA DE NOVELA 2021 Y UNO DE LOS 50 MEJORES LIBROS DE 2021 SEGÚN BABELIA
Una novela sobre el fin de la infancia y sus fantasmas «Cómo resumir todo lo que me fascinó de Pilar Quintana. El brutal lirismo. Su caminar contra lo esperado. Esa tensión afiladísima, poética y nada complaciente.»
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Author
Publisher
World Editions
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With extraordinary perception and sensitivity, a young girl reflects on her parents troubled marriage and tries to construct her reality by predicting, guessing, or interpreting what is not said, and what is half said. With a background of the small female universe comprised of well-to-do women for whom it is impossible to break from the customs and mold of a previous time, Pilar Quintana has constructed an intimate novel, with a narrative voice...
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Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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