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Premio Nadal de Novela, 1944

Laforet, Carmen

Just half a year after the civil war ended, the young Andrea moved to Barcelona to study Literature at the university. As soon as she enters her grandmother's apartment, the dirt, tradition, tension, violence and hatred, a perfect reflection of the society of the time, are clouding the illusion she feels for her new life. she in Barcelona. But when she meets Ena, a college girl, she discovers a bright and hopeful world and realizes that the long-awaited freedom she pursues is closer than she thinks. With an extraordinary sensitivity to delve into the most intimate recesses of the human soul, Carmen Laforet portrays the experiences of a woman who, faced with a cruel and oppressive reality, does not give up her efforts to be who she wants to be.