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GCDS-9780872863712 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100521680 02 0872863719 03 9780872863712 15 9780872863712 BC 1 A01 Martín Gaite, Carmen Carmen Martín Gaite Carmen Martín Gaite was one of Spain's leading novelists. She was the author of numerous works of fiction and criticism, including Variable Cloud and, most recently, The Farewell Angel. The Back Room was the first of her novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English. In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature. 2 B06 Lane, Helen Helen Lane 01 eng 224 01 <P>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.</p><P>In <em>The Back Room </em>Carmen Mart&iacute;n Gaite spins out a hypnotic evocation of one woman's life counterpointed against the social history of modern Spain. The growth of a personal identity and the terrors of fascism are woven together within the delicate fabric of this dreamlike narrative. The result is an intimate and existential confessional--part autobiography, part fiction. In direct and simple language, Mart&iacute;n Gaite envisions life within a world besieged. This, her finest work, explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power.</p> 02 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... 08 "A serious, fascinating work, indeed a great novel . . . leaves its readers mesmerized." ABC Literario 08 "Excellently plotted and written with that perfect simplicity that tends to escape notice and which has characterized Gaite's novels from the start. .. . . She has once again made the difficult art of writing into easy reading." El Mundo 08 ". . . intensely serious, literary and wryly humorous, [her] mesmerizing, labyrinthine sentences induce a sense of wandering the corridors and topiaried gardens of Marienbad." Sunday Times 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100521680/images/87286100521680L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100521680/images/87286100521680S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100521680 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20000401 01 7.25 in 02 5.5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20000401 01 02 15.95 USD