Nada: Una Novela -- Carmen Laforet, Paperback

Mientras vive con estrecheces en una casa misteriosa de la calle de Aribau, la joven Andrea conoce a un grupo de estudiantes ricos, que representan un contrapunto atractivo para la miseria de su vida cotidiana. Con sus nuevas experiencias, la inocente Andrea va averiguando poco a poco la verdad inquietante de las personas que la rodean. Entre la crisis existencial y el umbral de la madurez, Andrea emerger de su apasionado viaje interior m s sabia, m s fuerte y llena de esperanza para el futuro.

Con su profunda penetraci n sobre la condici n humana, la cl sica novela de Carmen Laforet, inspirada en su propia vida, merece ocupar su lugar como una de las mejores novelas europeas del siglo XX.

"Profundamente conmovedor y fascinante....una de las grandes cl sicas de la literatura europea contempor nea." -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon, autor del bestseller La sombra del viento

"Un trabajo de genio que recuerda] a Sartre y Camus a la vez m s moderno y m s vibrante." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Una oscura obra de ficci n hermosamente austere...Su inquietante relaci n con el clima politico y las actitudes sociales de la actualidad es dific l de ignorar." -- San Fancisco Chronicle

"El esp ritu de astuta resistencia que expresa la novela de Laforet...no ha perdido para nada su poder de persuasion." -- The New York Times Book Review

Author: Carmen Laforet
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 02/12/2008
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.22w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780812977714
Language: Spanish

About the Author
Carmen Laforet was born in Barcelona in 1921 and had a profound impact on Spanish narrative literature. Her first novel, Nada, was awarded the first Premio Nadal in 1944, and is considered one of the most important works of post-Civil War Spain. She also wrote a collection of short stories and five other novels, including La mujer nueva, which won the National Prize for Literature in 1955, and Al doblar la esquina, which came out in 2004, the year of her death.

Edith Grossman is the distinguished translator of works by many other Spanish and Latin American writers, including Miguel de Cervantes, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Álvaro Mutis. She is the recipient of two Translation of the Year awards from the American Literary Translators Association, and the 2006 PEN Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. She lives in New York City.

Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's preeminent fiction writers and essayists. His novels include The Feast of the Goat, The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.