Primera memoria

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Destino, 1973 - Fiction - 245 pages
With the civil war, "distant and close to a time, perhaps more feared by the invisible", as a backdrop, First Memory, Nadal Prize 1959, narrates the passage from childhood to adolescence of Matia - the protagonist - and her cousin Borja. The two live in their grandmother's house in a naive and mysterious island world at the same time.

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Section 1
9
Section 2
31
Section 3
42
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About the author (1973)

One of Spain's foremost novelists and short story writers of the post-civil war period, Matute is particularly renowned for her loving but unsentimental stories about children and adolescents. Marked by existential anguish and poignant lyricism, these stories often focus on traumatic experiences, which lead to a child's sudden awakening to the sordid, cruel, and hypocritical adult world.

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