Lydie Salvayre

Broschiertes Buch

Cry, Mother Spain

Beschreibung

A powerful account of the early days of the Spanish Civil War, seen through the eyes of a young girl.

Autor

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 Aix-en-Provence and Marseille around the beginning of the 1980's. Her novel La Compagnie des spectres won the Prix Novembre in 1997 and was named Book of the Year by Lire. Pas Pleurer won the Prix Goncourt in 2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9780857054524
• ISBN-10: 085705452X
• Artikelnr.: 47525189