by Luis Mateo Díez · Alfaguara · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788420427102
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«Apócrifo del clavel y la espina» is the literary novel by Luis Mateo Díez, published by Alfaguara in 1992 in paperback (215 pages, in Spanish).
Two legendary tales narrate the story of a lineage in a valley in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The first spans a thousand years of family memory and holds a secret; the second tells of the last winter of a shipwrecked man in his manor house. Passion, oblivion, heroism and ruin, with oral tradition and symbolic lyricism.
The work belongs to the Alfaguara/Paperback collection and was recognized with the Café Gijón Prize; the original edition dates from 1977.
For fans of literary fiction and contemporary Spanish narrative, with an interest in oral tradition and symbolic lyricism.
Luis Mateo Díez Rodríguez is a Spanish writer. He has written widely in a variety of genres, and has published over 50 books to date. He is best known for his works that focus on the fictional Kingdom of Celama. Two of his novels have won both the Premio de la Crítica and the Premio Nacional de Narrativa - La fuente de la edad in 1986, and La ruina del cielo in 2000. Díez also won the National Prize for Spanish Literature in 2020.
