by Ana María Matute · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437633244
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Luciérnagas is a novel by Ana María Matute, set in Barcelona between 1935 and 1939. The story narrates the corruption of innocence and the transition from adolescence to maturity through the eyes of Sol Roda, a young woman from a well-to-do family. Sol observes how her family and social environment decomposes and is destroyed with the outbreak of the civil war, marking her psychological evolution and her vision of the world.
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.
