Nada

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A modern Spanish classic, first published sixty years ago and translated into eighteen languages, now available in English with a preface by Mario Vargas Llosa. The novel conveys beautifully the spirit of war-torn, brutalized Barcelona.One of the great classics of contemporary European literature.—Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of The Shadow of the Wind

… a story that Carmen Laforet narrates in prose both exalted and icy, in which what is unspoken is more important than what is said, keeping the reader of the novel submerged in indescribable anguish from beginning to end—Mario Vargas Llosa

Read today, Nada surprises us with its modernity. By its absolute lack of sentimentality, in spite of the atrocities that it relates. By its exact style, clean, sharp as a crystal, and at the same time full of expressive force and poetic originality.—El Mundo

A masterly, original novel, minutely and faithfully observed, with psychological aspects that make you think and feel—Azorín

One of the best novels of the twentieth century.—Miguel Delibes, author of The HereticBorn in Barcelona in 1921, Carmen Laforet spent her childhood in Las Palmas until, like the heroine of her novel, she returned to her native city to attend university. Her first novel Nada (Nothing) was published in 1945. She died in Madrid in 2004.GB