Soldiers Cry by Night

by Ana María Matute

Book Overview

In Soldiers Cry by Night, 1964, the second volume of The Merchants (1959-1969), an award-winning trilogy about the Spanish Civil War, Ana Mara Matute uses a realistic setting and autobiographical detail to depict triumph and loss. Manuel and Marta are forced to accept the end of their innocent childhood happiness, and must come to terms with the allegiances and betrayals of the harsh adult world. During the Facist attack on Barcelona the two young...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935480676
• ISBN13: 9780935480672
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An insightful look to the human soul

Why we feel so special about ourselves? Because we know everything about ourselves. Matute reflects here (and in the others books of the trilogy, The Trap and First Memory) how our childhood shapes our future life, and how we cannot do much about it. We can understand our life because we know all things that happened to us, since childhood. Trying to make to understand it to other people is the main problem of living with somebody. Yes, Matute hits the right string inside our souls, and with her wonderful prose, poetically talks about friendship, love and hate, fears and beliefs, during the Spanish civil war. A war that changed the life of the characters of the novel in a very profound way, with no blood nor suffering, but with deep feelings. Only Matute can convince us of the importance of the most secret feelings in our everyday life. I recommend you to read first First Memory, although is not required.