The confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro and other stories / Natalie L.M. Petesch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petesch, Natalie L. M., 1924-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Fiction.

Spain.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

159 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, [2005]

Summary:

In her haunting new collection, Natalie L. M. Petesch immerses readers in the lives of people caught up in the Spanish CivilWar, which left more than five hundred thousand dead. She captures the hand-to-mouth existence of two war orphans on the streets of Madrid; an old soldier's memories of a fallen militiawoman; the dilemma of Franco's laundress as she seeks to duplicate a stolen religious icon she finds in his home; and a man's struggle to find his bride among thousands of Republican refugees waiting for ships to evacuate them before Franco's Fascists arrive to kill them.

The Confessions of Senora Francesca Navarro and Other Stories is the work of a mature artist able to convey a particular world so vividly that we know these people as our own.

Contents:

Timoteo, the derrelicto

The hand of St. Teresa

Federico at the clinic

The confessions of Señora Francesca Navarro

This passionate sun.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 159).

ISBN:

0804010765

0804010773

OCLC:

58594971