by Ana María Matute · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467261943
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«Primera memoria» is the novel by Ana María Matute published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, with 210 pages and in Spanish.
The novel delves into childhood, memory and war through the gaze of a girl who observes the adult world as a strange and alien territory. It portrays the loss of innocence and the clash between the child's universe and the contradictions of adults in 20th-century Spain.
First installment of the trilogy Los mercaderes. The work won the Premio Nadal in 1959; the hardcover edition is from 2014.
For readers interested in 20th-century Spanish narrative and the classics 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.
