by Ana María Matute · Ed. Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422650775
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«Luciérnagas» is the novel by Spanish writer Ana María Matute, published by Ed. Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (303 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in postwar Spain and follows Sol, a young woman trying to find her place in an environment of poverty, repression and silence; through her eyes, it portrays a generation attempting to rebuild their lives after the Civil War.
The novel was published in 1993; the hardcover edition measures 13 x 21 cm.
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.
