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The Island

By آنا ماريا ماتوته

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2021

  • رواية

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Fourteen-year-old Matia is sent to her grandmother’s house on Mallorca, where the Spanish Civil War reaches the island through rumour, division and intimate betrayal. Her extraordinary memory records trees, rocks, light and sea alongside cruelty, cowardice and desire. Ana María Matute’s first novel in the Los mercaderes trilogy captures the end of childhood as political violence enters family life, exposing the adult world through the clear and wounded gaze of a girl. Originally written in Spanish as “Primera memoria”, the work appears here in an Arabic translation by Ali Ibrahim Ashqar.

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