Nada

Carmen Laforet

Vintage, 2008 - Fiction - 241 pages

Andrea, an impoverished 18-year-old girl, travels to Barcelona to study literature at the university. The city imposes its post-Civil War atmosphere on her impressionable mind. As the story develops, the tension between her grandmother, her two eccentric uncles, an aunt, and the housekeeper grows in claustrophobic intensity.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nada
• Author: Carmen Laforet
• Translated by: Edith Grossman
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage, 2008
• ISBN: 0099494191, 9780099494195
• Length: 241 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / City Life; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Cultural Heritage; Fiction / Friendship; Fiction / General; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological