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PublisherAunt Lute Books

ISBN-101879960826

ISBN-139781879960824

eBay Product ID (ePID)78824231

Product Key Features

Original LanguageSpanish

Book TitleBeautiful and Dark

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicLiterary

GenreFiction

AuthorRosa Montero

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10 oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-005820

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal863/.64

SynopsisCombining elements of the real and the fantastic, Beautiful and Dark (Bella y oscura) is written from the perspective of an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a derelict neighborhood at the edge of a city. Trying to cope with the mystery and violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, who fascinates her with fantastic tales that mix myth and memory. Beautiful and Dark... is a dramatization of the painful innocence of childhood when confronting the adult world, of the position of women, of love, of death, and of writing itself--the Beautiful and Dark writing that Rosa Montero has invented with intense and entertaining effectiveness in order to be loyal to her truth. --Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia Beautiful and Dark synthesizes the mixture that comprises the book well--a mixture of sordid social realism, existentialist orientation, and the mysterious, magical terror that depicts the unknown from the mythifying, childish perspective of a girl, whose experiences are a metaphor for unfulfilled desires. --J.L. Martín Nogales, El Diario Vasco In her most thoughtful novel to date, Rosa Montero brilliantly combines intrigue and imagination with personal insight into human nature. --Javier Escudero, World Literature in Review, Fiction. Translated from the Spanish by Adrienne Mitchell. Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, BEAUTIFUL AND DARK ( Bella y oscura ) is written from the perspective of Baba, an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a neighborhood called El Barrio. Trying to cope with the mystery and violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, who fascinates Baba with her fantastic tales that mix myth and memory. "In her most thoughtful novel to date, Rosa Montero brilliantly combines intrigue and imagination with personal insight into human nature" Javier Escudero, World Literature in Review .", "In her most thoughtful novel to date, Rosa Montero brilliantly combines intrigue and imagination with personal insight into human nature."--Javier Escudero, World Literature in Review "Intent on shaking the foundations of beauty and truth, Bella y oscura provides a provocative feminist indictment of Francoist historiography."--Mary C. Harges, Synergy and Subversion in the Second Stage Novels of Rosa Montero Combining elements of the real and the fantastic, Beautiful and Dark ( Bella y oscura ) is written from the perspective of Baba, an orphaned girl taken to live with relatives in a neighborhood called El Barrio. Trying to cope with the mystery and violence of the adult world around her, she is drawn to the Lilliputian Airelei, who fascinates Baba with her fantastic tales that mix myth and memory. Born in Madrid in 1951, Rosa Montero has been a journalist for Madrid's daily newspaper El País since 1976. She has published eight novels, many of which have been bestsellers in Spain. Montero's novel La hija del canibal (1997) won Spain's most prestigious literary award, the Premio Primavera de Novela. Adrienne Mitchell is a literary translator and tenured professor who holds an MEd in educational leadership with a focus on second language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as an MA in romance languages from the University of Oregon.

LC Classification NumberPQ6663.O554B4513