Cry, Mother Spain
$33.23
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
10 July 2017
Summary
Aged fifteen, as Franco’s forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit).
Montse lives in a small village, high in the hills, where few people can read or write and fewer still ever leave. If everything goes according to her mother’s plan, Montse will never leave either. She will become a goo…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857054524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 085705452X |
| Author: | Lydie Salvayre, Ben Faccini |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 10 July 2017 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 146mm x 19mm |
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Lydie Salvayre orchestrates her story like a true maestro
Lydie Salvayre orchestrates her story like a true maestro - BibliObs
The great originality of this novel … is the blending of the universal and personal experiences of the Spanish Civil War - FigaroA turbulent, magnificent novel that shines a new light on the Spanish Civil War. It resonates with the power of a manifesto for modern times - ExpressLydie Salvayre has cultivated a resounding anger… Cry, Mother Spain is the novel and the tribute of an impassioned voice - LiberationLydie Salvayre creates a dynamic harmony in a language that elevates grit, heroism and beauty - Le MondeA magnificent novel. A brilliantly written family saga and a mesmerising study of memory and historical reconstruction - El MundoLydie Salvayre has written a novel about the Spanish Civil War unlike any other. Her approach gives her story an astonishing power and a unique perspective - ABC CulturalA seriously important novel … The novel Pasolini would have written had he been the son of Spanish exiles - Time Out BarcelonaAbout The Author
Lydie Salvayre
Lydie Salvayre is a former psychiatrist, who grew up near Toulouse after her exiled republican parents fled Franco’s regime. As a child she spoke Spanish, only learning French after starting school. She studied medicine and specialised as a psychiatrist in Marseille, before beginning to write at the end of the 70’s, with her first works appearing in literary reviews in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille around the beginning of the 1980’s. Her novel La Compagnie des spectres won the Prix Novembre in 1997 and was named Book of the Year by Lire. Pas Pleurer won the Prix Goncourt in 2014.
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