by Almudena Grandes · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490664193
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«Las tres bodas de Manolita» is the historical novel by Almudena Grandes, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (768 pages, in Spanish).
In postwar Madrid, Manolita, with her father and stepmother imprisoned and her brother Antonio in hiding, cares for her siblings. To sustain the resistance, Antonio wants to print clandestine propaganda, and Manolita visits a prisoner who masters the mimeograph machines. The novel portrays the mutual support among neighbors in the face of repression and the informer.
Third installment of the series «Episodios de una guerra interminable»; the action takes place in Madrid from 1940 to 1950.
Aimed at the general public interested in historical fiction and Spanish narrative about the Civil War and Francoism.
María de la Almudena Grandes Hernández was a Spanish writer. Author of 14 novels and three short-story collections, her work has been translated into twenty languages and frequently adapted to film. She won the National Literature Prize for Narrative and the Prix Méditerranée among other honors. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called her "one of the most important writers of our time."
