![]() I can only agree with Richard, Nada deserves to be called a classic. What a fantastic book! One of the best I read so far this year which is saying a lot as there were quite a few wonderful books already. After having read what he wrote I had to get it immediately. ![]() I had read an article about Carmen Laforet’s book when the re-translated German version came out in 2006 and although I was interested I forgot all about it until I read Richard’s intriguing review a couple of weeks ago. Nada, which includes an illuminating Introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe ![]() Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures Carmen Laforet’s feverish energy, powerful imagery, and subtle humor. One of the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain, Nada is the semiautobiographical story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona. ![]()
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