Bøger af Carmen Martín Gaite

Winner of Spain's National Prize for LiteratureIn the middle of the night, a woman awakens to find a stranger in her bedroom. Though she cannot determine who he is—or, indeed, whether he is even real at all and not just an extension of her dreams or her writing—she is drawn into a conversation with her unexpected guest. What she tells him becomes the story of a woman coming of age in the repressive Spain of the Franco era.In The Back Room Carmen Martín Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the social history of modern Spain. The growth of a personal identity and the terrors of fascism are woven together within the delicate fabric of this dreamlike narrative. The result is an intimate and existential confessional—part autobiography, part fiction. In direct and simple language, Martín Gaite envisions life within a world besieged. This, her finest work, explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power."The winner of Spain's 1978 National Prize for Literature, Gaite's postmodern novel interweaves dreams and fantasies with autobiography and Spanish history, resulting in a book that is complex and elusive, but more than worth the effort."—Publishers Weekly"Some of the cultural specifics in this 1978 novel from Spain—songs, doll furniture, movies—may be meaningful only for Spanish readers. But Martin Gaite's novel, the first in Columbia's new Twentieth Century Continental Fiction Program, is artful and engaging nonetheless, a book of intelligent moods modulating into one another."—Kirkus Reviews"… intensely serious, literary and wryly humorous, [her] mesmerizing, labyrinthine sentences induce a sense of wandering the corridors and topiaried gardens of Marienbad."—Sunday TimesCarmen Martín Gaite was one of Spain's leading novelists. She was the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism, including Variable Cloud and The Farewell Angel. The Back Room was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature.

Esta obra de Carmen Martín Gaite es una versión actual, situada en Nueva York, del conocido cuento de Charles Perrault. Sara es una niña de 10 años que vive en Brooklyn y sueña con ir ella sola a Manhattan a llevar a su abuela una tarta de fresa. La abuela es una antigua cantante de music hall. El lobo es un pastelero millonario que vive cerca de Central Park y no encuentra sentido a su vida. La figura mágica de miss Lunatic, cuyo secreto – haber sido la musa que inspiró al escultor de la estatua de la Libertad – llegará a conocer Sara, es el hilo conductor que lleva a la niña a realizar sus sueños de libertad … Nuestra edición de ”Caperucita en Manhattan” contiene el texto original abreviado. Pero no ha sido adaptada, conservando en todo momento el estilo original de la autora. Easy Readers er bearbejdede og forkortede udgaver af romaner og noveller. De findes på niveau A, B, C og D, hvor A er lettest. Niveauerne relaterer til Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (level A2 til B2).

"A Proustian journey into the interior, a dazzling psychodrama and, arguably, one of the best novels out of Spain in recent decades" Kirkus ReviewsOn the day he is released from prison in Madrid, Leonardo learns of his parents' death in a car crash.

A 35-year-old woman who has lived hard and loved hard, has just lost her mother. Struggling to keep her curiosity about an inexplicable world intact, she finds her precarious equilibrium constantly besieged by resurfacing oddballs from her past and her own tendency to daydream.

An impassioned correspondence between two former school friends as they reach crisis in middle age, from the prize-winning Spanish novelist Carmen Martin GaiteSofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo.