Courtship Customs in Postwar Spain/Usos Amorosos De LA Postguerra Espanola (English and Spanish Edition)

By Carmen Martín Gaite

Book Overview

Carmen Martin Gaite has a sizeable corpus of creative literature which, for the most part, combines personal or fictional experience with a realistic view of life in contemporary Spain. Her prize-wining essay Usos amorosos de la postguerra espanola Courtship Customs in Postwar Spain] (1987) is a companion piece to her fictional work and offers a key that explains the attitudes of the protagonists as well as those of her generation. Its dedication clearly shows that this is not a piece of dry research: For all Spanish women between 50 and 60, who don't understand their children. And for their children, who don't understand them. She obviously hit the right chord: the book was so popular that it sold seven editions in less than six months and was named Libro de Oro Gold Book] by the Spanish Booksellers Guild.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838755747
• ISBN13: 9780838755747
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.6" x 6.5"