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Estaciones de paso

(Stations On the Way)

Grandes, Almudena - Spain


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NOVEL

Perhaps the true emotional experiences, those that are never forgotten, are the ones that take place during adolescence, that fragile territory in which one approaches adult life for the first time. Estaciones de paso gathers the stories of five adolescents that live overwhelming circumstances that, without suspecting it, will shape them as adults. These are stories of determination and courage, of family conflicts, but also of love, of sentimental education, and of the formation of a conscience.

 

Like the boy who tells about his tragedy while narrating a game of soccer in  Demonstrating the Existence of God. Or the young woman who feels heir to a gift and a legendary skill in Tobacco and Black. Or Carlos, as he remembers the summer vacation when he first became politically compromised in The Captain of the Single File.  Or Maite, who cooks up her interior confusion while she takes care of her invalid father in Summer Recipe. Or Thomas, who manages to seduce a woman so beautiful that she is pure music in Mozart, Brahms, and Corelli.

 

Almudena Grandes offers a gallery of unforgettable young adults, who are confused and disoriented, but convinced about the need to get ahead. And they are brought to life with excuses as different as soccer, bullfighting, politics, cooking, or music…



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BIOGRAPHY

Almudena Grandes (Madrid, 1960)  became widely known as a writer in 1989 with her novel Las edades de Lulú, which won the XI Sonrisa Vertical Prize. She has received the acclaim of readers and critics ever since. She is the author of eleven novels and two books of short stories that have established her as one of the most solid and internationally-known narrators in contemporary Spanish literature. Many of her works have been taken to the big screen, and her novel, El corazón helado, one of the most acclaimed and long-lasting successes in current Spanish literature, has received, among other awards, the Fundación Lara Prize, the prizes of the booksellers in Madrid and Seville, the Rapallo Carige in  Italy and the Prix Méditerranée in France. Her novel Inés y la alegría was awarded the Critics Prize in Madrid in 2011, the Elena Poniatowska Prize 2011 and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2011, and El lector de Julio Verne was selected best book of 2012 by the readers of El País.

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