Absent Love:A Chronicle

by Rosa Montero

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The first work of Rosa Montero. The portrait of a Spanish generation. NATIONAL LYRICS AWARD 2017 Rosa Montero boldly portrays the story of Ana, who must meet the demands of her job as an editor in a magazine, take care of her son and navigate the nightlife of the convulsive Madrid at the end of the from the seventies Chronicle of heartbreak is the author's first novel and a key work to understand the concerns of a generation that felt powerful and disoriented at the same time, and that still show more did not know how to play at managing its freedom without hurting itself. A novel closely attached to a generational reality. A live portrait of those fiery years of the Transition. I have the strange feeling that we all have written this novel in some way [...], Crónica del desamor shows us a snapshot of what we were. Rosa Montero ** 2019 Legend Award granted by the Madrid Bookstore Association show less

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Absent Love:A Chronicle
Important places
Madrid, Spain

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
DDC/MDS
863.64Literature & rhetoricSpanish LiteratureSpanish fiction20th Century1945-2000
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PQ6663 .O554 .C7Language and LiteratureFrench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literaturesSpanish literatureIndividual authors, 1961-2000
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