by Carmen Conde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432060458
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«Soy la madre» is the novel by Carmen Conde, published by Planeta in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
Laurencia's life takes a turn after suffering violence at the hands of the local boss don Diego and losing the peasant she had married. Trapped between hatred for don Diego and love for her son Francisco, she devotes her life to the child. That conflict between resentment and motherhood runs through the novel.
The novel was awarded the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla in 1980 and belongs to the Premios Ateneo collection.
For readers of Spanish rural fiction with an interest in award-winning works.
Carmen Conde Abellán was a Spanish poet, narrative writer and teacher. In 1931 she founded the first Popular University of Cartagena, along with her husband Antonio Oliver Belmás. She was also the first woman to become an academic numerary of the Real Academia Española, where she delivered her induction speech in 1979.
