by Ana María Matute · Agata · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401426025
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«El río» is the novel by writer Ana María Matute, published by Agata in paperback (190 pages, in Spanish).
The protagonist returns to the landscapes of his childhood and finds the village submerged under a reservoir; only in August does it emerge as the water recedes. Matute weaves bittersweet memories of a magical, unrecoverable childhood, with wolves, beggars, costumes and rain, blending reality and mystery to show life's transience with tenderness and lucidity.
Published in 2000, the novel belongs to the Ave Fénix collection and was originally written in Spanish.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
