by Carmen Martín Gaite · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433924735
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«Los parentescos» is the novel by Carmen Martín Gaite, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover, with a prologue by Belén Gopegui (256 pages, in Spanish).
Baltasar grows up among his mother, three half-brothers, an absent father, the maid Fuencisla and, upstairs, his brothers' grandparents. He stays silent until the age of four; after a puppet show he discovers fiction and begins to speak, while the novel explores the origin of character and the new kinships of social relations.
First edition: February 1, 2001. Narrativas hispánicas collection, number 302. The work consists of the twenty-one chapters that Carmen Martín Gaite managed to finish.
For readers of contemporary fiction in Spanish interested in the work of Carmen Martín Gaite.
Carmen Martín Gaite was a Spanish author who wrote many novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays across multiple genres. Her work has received significant recognition: in 1957, she was awarded the Premio Nadal for Entre visillos; in 1988 she won the Prince of Asturias Award;in 1992 she received the Premio Castilla y León de las Letras, and she also was awarded the Premio Acebo de Honor for her life's work.
