Fiction & Literature
Estaciones de paso
Almudena Grandes
Synopsis
Five stories follow adolescents at moments when familiar certainties begin to break down. Through family tensions, loss and newly discovered passions, Almudena Grandes explores the encounters that alter a young person’s direction and the uneven passage toward an independent life.
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Los pacientes del doctor García
Doctor Guillermo García lives in postwar Madrid under an assumed identity, protected by papers from a friend whose life he once saved. When their paths cross again, that friendship draws him into espionage and the hidden networks connecting Spain to Europe's defeated fascists.
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Los besos en el pan
Residents of a Madrid neighbourhood face the pressures of an economic crisis through ordinary routines, family worries and small acts of help. Their intersecting lives form a collective portrait of dignity and solidarity when security can no longer be taken for granted.
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Las tres bodas de Manolita
In postwar Madrid, eighteen-year-old Manolita struggles to support her siblings while her family is scattered by imprisonment and clandestine resistance. A plan involving a duplicating machine and a prisoner draws her into relationships that reshape both her private life and her political understanding.
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