by Carmen Laforet · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423339815
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«Nada» is Carmen Laforet's postwar novel, published by Destino in paperback (299 pages, in Spanish).
Andrea, a young woman who moves to Barcelona after the Civil War to study, stays at her grandmother's house on Aribau Street. There she lives with a family marked by tension, hunger, and violence. Her friendship with Ena, whom she meets at university, shows her what the outside world can offer.
The novel «Nada» was originally published in 1944 and received the Nadal Prize that year and the Fastenrath Prize in 1948. «Nada» is the first volume in the Destinolibro collection.
For readers of classic Spanish narrative and fiction set in the postwar period.
Carmen Laforet was a Spanish author who wrote in the period after the Spanish Civil War. An important European writer, her works contributed to the school of Existentialist Literature and her first novel Nada continued the Spanish tremendismo literary style begun by Camilo José Cela with his novel, La familia de Pascual Duarte. She received the Premio Nadal in 1944.
