by Penelope Fitzgerald · Impedimenta Editorial S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493760144
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«La librería» is the tragicomic novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, published by Impedimenta in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
In 1959, Florence Green opens the first bookstore in a coastal Suffolk town. The old building she chooses is damp and has a poltergeist. She soon clashes with the resistance of local authorities; only a ten-year-old girl helps her. The sale of the controversial edition of Nabokov's Lolita sparks a scandal in the community.
The novel, a Booker Prize finalist, was originally published as The Bookshop; this Spanish edition, translated by Ana Bustelo, is number 33 in the Impedimenta collection.
Suitable for readers of literary fiction and twentieth-century English narrative; offers a portrait of community with a tragicomic tone.
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."
