by Carmen Laforet · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423304233
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La isla y los demonios is a novel by the Spanish writer Carmen Laforet, published in 1952. The story follows Marta Camino, a teenager living in Las Palmas in 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Her life changes with the arrival of relatives fleeing the war, which leads her to discover her own inner demons and seek her liberation. The novel explores themes of identity, family, and the search for freedom in a context of war and oppression.
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
