Carmen Martin Gaite, Author, Carmen Martc-N Gaite, Author, Carmen Martn Gaite, Author City Lights Books $11.95 (215p) ISBN 978-0-87286-371-2
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. The main...
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Carmen Martin Gaite, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator, Carmen Martin Gaite, Author Harvill Press $26 (0p) ISBN 978-1-86046-061-6
As their lives reach crises in middle age, two women, former school friends who had grown apart, reach out to each other through an exchange of impassioned letters in Gaite's effusive epistolary novel. Mariana Leon, a psychiatrist and TV pundit,...
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Carmen Martin Gaite, Author, Margaret Jull Costa, Translator, Carmen Martin Gaite, Author Harvill Press $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-86046-357-0
Blurring the boundaries between real life and a dream, this richly imagined, meticulously crafted tale by Spanish novelist Gaite (Variable Cloud) borrows from a fairy tale to redeem a young man's past. Moments after his release from prison in the...
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