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Cry, Mother Spain
Lydie Salvayre
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Description for Cry, Mother Spain
Paperback. A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl. Translator(s): Faccini, Ben. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
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 good, humble maid for the local landowners, muchisimas gracias, with ... Read more
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 good, humble maid for the local landowners, muchisimas gracias, with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857054524
SKU
V9780857054524
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About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Cry, Mother Spain
A magnificent novel. A brilliantly written family saga and a mesmerising study of memory and historical reconstruction
Fran G. Matute
El Mundo
Lydie 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
Mercedes Monmay
ABC Cultural
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Fran G. Matute
El Mundo
Lydie 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
Mercedes Monmay
ABC Cultural
Lydie Salvayre ... Read more