Modern Library Classics: Nada: Una novela (Paperback)

from MariaAlhambra

One of the best Spanish novels of the 20th century. It is narrated by Andrea, a young university student, who is staying with her family in their crumbling and decayed Barcelona flat. A kind of ironic reversal of the family romance, Andrea is equally repulsed and fascinated by the world of her un...

from kidzdoc

This semi-autobiographical bildungsroman, written in 1943 when the author was 22 years of age, is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the post-Spanish Civil War period. It was largely unknown in the English speaking world until Edith Grossman's translation of it was published in 200...

from tedmooney

"This amazing novel about a young girl returning as an orphan to Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War is one of the classics of 20th century literature. LaForet, who was Catalan, was, of course, forbidden from writing it in anything but Spanish. She was 23 when she wrote it, and it won the first...

from MariaAlhambra

One of the best Spanish novels of the 20th century. It is narrated by Andrea, a young university student, who is staying with her family in their crumbling and decayed Barcelona flat. A kind of ironic reversal of the family romance, Andrea is equally repulsed and fascinated by the world of her un...

from tinuola_victoria

Really brilliant book. It attcks the old-age coming-of-age theme in a far more complex way than usual. It is dense, each word baring partcular meaning and relevance like I find with alot of spanish writers. It doesn't focus on beginning middle and end happy sad blah blah. It deals with life, life...