by Fernando Fernán Gómez · Espasa-Calpe, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788423976904
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«La Puerta del Sol» is the novel by Fernando Fernán Gómez, published by Espasa-Calpe in hardcover (267 pages, in Spanish).
Mariana Bravo, a poor and dreamy young woman, leaves her village hoping to prosper in Madrid. She arrives with Ramón Gómez to take care of the porter's lodge at number 9 Vergel Street, near the Puerta del Sol. Around her move characters who portray Madrid before the Civil War, with passions, comic entanglements and political persecutions.
Originally published in 1995. Special edition from the Austral Collection. Winner of the Fastenrath Prize in 1995.
A novel for those who enjoy Spanish narrative with historical setting and stories of Madrid before the Civil War.
Fernando Fernández Gómez, better known as Fernando Fernán Gómez, was a Spanish actor, screenwriter, film director, theater director, novelist, and playwright. Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998. He was born in Lima, Peru while his mother, Spanish actress Carola Fernán-Gómez, was making a tour in Latin America. He would later use her surname for his stage name when he moved to Spain in 1924.
