Living's The Strange Thing

Carmen Martin Gaite

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Harvill Secker
21 January 2013

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

As compulsively page-turning as a thriller, Carmen Martin Gaite's drama of broken dreams, lies, and the search for love is an intense meditation on the strange adventure of living

As compulsively page-turning as a thriller, Carmen Martin Gaite's drama of broken dreams, lies, and the search for love is an intense meditation on the strange adventure of living

""Ever since the beginning of the world, living and dying have been two sides of one coin, tossed in the air - But for me - to be perfectly honest - living's the strange thing""

The protagonist of this novel, a 35-year-old woman who has lived hard and loved hard, has just lost her mother.

Struggling to keep her curiosity about an inexplicable world intact, she finds her precarious equilibrium constantly besieged by resurfacing oddballs from her past and her own tendency to daydream. To force a little structure into her life, she decides to pick up her old, unfinished doctoral dissertation about an extravagant 18th century adventurer.

As she wades through old papers in a dusty archive, she is forced to confront her own strange childhood, her parents' strange relationship, and the feelings that bond her to the strange architect she shares a life with.

By: Carmen Martin Gaite
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 170g
ISBN: 9781846557767
ISBN 10: 1846557763
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carmen Martin Gaite (1925 - 2000) was one of Spain's most distinguished novelists; in 1978, she was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature. Her novels Variable Cloud and The Fallen Angel were also published by Harvill.

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Carmen Martin Gaite writes evocatively and gracefully, and has some intriguing things to say about story-telling, and about the prisons we create for ourselves * Sunday Times * Idiosyncratic, wilful, cute, a choppy blur of emotion and erudition, cocky, confrontational conversation and fragmented urban commentary, it starts off resembling something by Russell Hoban or Josephine Saxton - or even Janet Frame * The Guardian *

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