by Almudena Grandes · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467224191
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«El corazón helado» is the historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (994 pages, in Spanish).
After the death of Julio Carrión, a businessman of Francoist origin, his son Álvaro discovers at the funeral a stranger who reveals secrets of his father's past, marked by the Civil War and the Blue Division. Raquel Fernández Perea, daughter and granddaughter of exiles in France, holds an unresolved debt; Álvaro and Raquel eventually meet.
Published in 2007, this edition has a dust jacket. Winner of the Fundación José Manuel Lara Prize in 2008.
For readers of historical and contemporary fiction interested in the memory of the Civil War, exile and the Spanish transition.
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
