But such a peaceful existence would be truncated when his mother died while living in Gran Canaria. Firstborn of five brothers, he was the right eye of his father, a brilliant architect with a liberal spirit that would instill in him the love for sports (he would be very friendly to the famous tennis player Lilí Álvarez) and for the lyrics. It all started six years before, when Carmen took the reins of her life with only 17 years. Because from then on, “nothing” would be the same again. The pages of and nothing they change their life forever leading irretrievably to a destination that could not face. With Nothing, his first novel, Carmen Laforet, wins the precious Nadal 1944 award.īy surprise, the jury surrenders to the young writer of only 23 years who, with unusual talent, traces an accurate x-ray of the vital sadness in the dark Spanish postwar period.
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