Nada - Vintage Editions

Informationen zum Autor Edith Grossman is the award-winning translator of major works by many of Latin America's most important writers. Born in Philadelphia, she attended the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California at Berkeley before receiving her PhD from New York University. She lives in New York City. Born in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood in Las Palmas until, like the heroine of her novel, she returned to her native city to attend university. Her first novel Nada ( Nothing) was published in 1945. She died in Madrid in 2004. Klappentext Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. As Andrea's university friend, the affluent, elegant Ena, enters into a strange relationship with Roman, Andrea can't help but wonder what future lies ahead for her in such a bizarre and disturbing world. Zusammenfassung Eighteen-year old orphan Andrea moves to battle-scarred Barcelona to take up a scholarship at the university. As Andrea's university friend, the affluent, elegant Ena, enters into a strange relationship with Roman, Andrea can't help but wonder what future lies ahead for her in such a bizarre and disturbing world.

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Product details

• Authors: Edith Grossman, Carmen Laforet, Laforet Carmen
• Assisted by: Edith Grossman (Translation), Grossman Edith (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781784876210
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-621-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 177 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Friendship, Spain, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Psychological, Fiction in translation, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Barcelona (Province)