by Penelope Fitzgerald · IMPEDIMENTA EDITORIAL S.L · tapa dura · ISBN 9788417115197
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«La librería» is Penelope Fitzgerald's novel in a commemorative edition, published by Impedimenta in hardcover (208 pages, in Spanish).
In 1959, Florence Green opens the first bookstore in a small coastal town in Suffolk. She settles into an old house with a poltergeist and soon clashes with the townspeople. Only a ten-year-old girl helps her, and the sale of Nabokov's «Lolita» triggers a subtle earthquake. A tragicomedy about books and adversity.
Work originally published as «The Bookshop» in 1978 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Translation by Ana Bustelo, with an afterword by Terence Dooley. Commemorative edition with unpublished images and texts.
For readers of literary fiction and fans of bookstore stories.
Penelope Mary Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer from Lincoln, England. In 2008 The Times listed her among "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945". The Observer in 2012 placed her final novel, The Blue Flower, among "the ten best historical novels". A.S. Byatt called her, "Jane Austen’s nearest heir for precision and invention."
