by Ana María Matute · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401426056
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«Fiesta al noroeste» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
In a small village, the death of a child triggers an upheaval that exposes the poverty, submission and power of the local boss. The portrait of that proud, resentful and devout man allows Ana María Matute to explore love, hatred and the tensions of rural Spanish society.
This 1999 edition belongs to the Espasa Bolsillo collection. The work won the Café Gijón Prize in 1952.
For readers of Spanish literary classics and of fiction portraying rural Spain and its social conflicts.
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.
