by Ana María Matute · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423322213
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«El río» is a novel by Ana María Matute, published by Booket in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
After a long absence, the protagonist returns to the landscapes of his childhood. The village has been covered by a reservoir and only emerges when the water level drops in August. Between reality and mystery, Ana María Matute weaves bittersweet scenes of an unrecoverable childhood: wolves, beggars, costumes and rain, and the transience of life.
This Booket edition was published in June 1997 and belongs to the Destinolibro collection, number 329.
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.
