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by Carmen Laforet
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Eighteen-year-old Andrea arrives in post-war Barcelona expecting freedom, university life and the glitter of a city she half-remembers. What she finds instead is a decaying apartment on Calle de Aribau, crowded with relatives whose grudges, hunger and violence have curdled into something close to madness. Hungry, watchful and fiercely observant, she moves between that suffocating house and the bright, careless world of her wealthy classmate Ena, trying to work out where she belongs. Written when its author was barely in her twenties, this Spanish classic is a dark, hypnotic coming-of-age story: shadowy, sensuous, psychologically precise, and unforgettable in its atmosphere of ruin and stubborn hope.
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