by Ana María Matute · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423302437
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«Los soldados lloran de noche» is the novel by Ana María Matute, published by Booket in paperback (232 pages, in Spanish).
In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, Jeza, a missing soldier, becomes for Manuel and Marta the hero who forces them to abandon childhood and inhabit an adult world governed by loyalty and betrayal. The poetic prose and temporal leaps make the novel a metaphor for vital commitment.
Second installment of the «Los mercaderes» series by Ana María Matute. The novel was recognized with the Fastenrath Prize from the Royal Spanish Academy.
For readers interested in contemporary Spanish narrative and the work of Ana María Matute.
Ana María Matute Ausejo was a Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for Primera memoria. The third woman to receive the Cervantes Prize for her literary oeuvre, she is considered one of the foremost novelists of the posguerra, the period immediately following the Spanish Civil War.
