by Ana Maria Matute · Lumen Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426430014
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«El Saltamontes Verde» is the children's story by Ana María Matute, published by Lumen in hardcover (96 pages, in Spanish).
The tale revolves around a deaf-mute boy and the relationship he forms with a green grasshopper. Through that bond, the story explores the power of voice, hope, and good thoughts, in a fantasy atmosphere.
The edition is from 1998 and includes illustrations by Cesca Jaume.
Suitable for readers aged 9 to 12 and for students of Spanish as a second language.
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.
