by Carmen Kurtz · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432051128
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«El desconocido» is the novel by Carmen Kurtz, published by Planeta in paperback (325 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in Spain and focuses on the relationships between the characters and the secrets that may lie beneath a life of normal appearance. From that tension between the visible and the hidden, the novel explores how the unspoken conditions human bonds.
The work was originally published in 1956, the year it won the Planeta Prize, and belongs to the Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in plots of secrets and portraits of personal relationships.
Carmen Kurtz was a Spanish writer, who wrote under the name of her husband, Pedro Kurtz, in Spanish. Winner of various literary prizes - including the Planeta, and others, she made her name as a writer during the 1960s with a series of children's books featuring the main character, a boy called Óscar, who had a pet goose named Kina. She is known for her work in adult prose fiction and notably for her novel El desconocido
