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The Back Room
Gaite, Carmen Martin, Lane, Helen
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Description for The Back Room
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Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature In 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 Martin Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the ... Read more
Winner of Spain's National Prize for Literature In 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 Martin Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Monroe, OR, United States
ISBN
9780872863712
SKU
V9780872863712
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Reviews for The Back Room
"Carmen Gaite explores the back room of memory, a scary place sometimes, but one filled with treasures for readers who venture there."—The St. Petersburg Times "The Back Room serves as a superb introduction to a writer who … deserves a wide readership among those who like fiction that risks a breach of habit."—The Boston Globe