by Ana María Matute · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423343621
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Los soldados lloran de noche, written in 1963 by Ana María Matute, is the second novel in the 'Los mercaderes' trilogy. Set at the end of the Spanish Civil War, this story revolves around the figure of Jeza, a missing soldier. Jeza becomes the necessary hero for Manuel and Marta to accept the end of the innocence of their childhood, in an adult world marked by fidelities and betrayals. The novel, historical and timeless, reveals a complex and intimate world wrapped in a labyrinthine plot.
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.
