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“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Mary Wortley Montagu
Nada
By Carmen Laforet
, a novel, set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona is the first novel of Spanish author Carmen, which means “nothing” in Spanish, is narrated by its main character, Andrea, an orphan, raised in a convent in provincial Spain. Nursing fond memories of her well-off family in Barcelona, Andrea travels to Barcelona to her grandmother’s home, which to her dismay is filthy and falling apart, where she discovers a band of misfit relatives.
