As compulsively page-turning as a thriller, Carmen Martin Gaite's drama of broken dreams, lies, and the search for love is an intense meditation on the strange adventure of living
Carmen Martin Gaite (1925 - 2000) was one of Spain's most distinguished novelists; in 1978, she was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature. Her novels Variable Cloud and The Fallen Angel were also published by Harvill.
Idiosyncratic, wilful, cute, a choppy blur of emotion and
erudition, cocky, confrontational conversation and fragmented urban
commentary, it starts off resembling something by Russell Hoban or
Josephine Saxton - or even Janet Frame
*The Guardian*
Carmen Martin Gaite writes evocatively and gracefully, and has some
intriguing things to say about story-telling, and about the prisons
we create for ourselves
*Sunday Times*
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