by Carme Riera · labutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788499301099
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«L'estiu de l'anglès» is the contemporary novel by Carme Riera, published by labutxaca in paperback (176 pages, in Catalan).
Laura Prats, a real estate agent from Barcelona, finds that her lack of English holds back her career. She sacrifices her August vacation to take an immersion course in Ledbury, an English village, and stays with Mrs. Grose, a peculiar and isolated woman whose teaching methods are both amusing and unsettling.
The work was originally published in 2006; this Catalan edition is from May 2010 and belongs to the Labutxaca collection.
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy humorous stories and the experience of learning languages.
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Carme Riera Guilera is a novelist and essayist. She has also written short stories, scripts for radio and television and literary criticism. She holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of Spanish literature at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
