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A bookseller in Madrid : a novel / Mario Escobar ; [translator, Gretchen Abernathy].
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Escobar Bookseller
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Escobar, Mario, 1971- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Librera de Madrid. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Fiction.
- Spain.
- Madrid (Spain)--Fiction.
- Madrid (Spain).
- Booksellers and bookselling--Fiction.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Germans--Spain--Fiction.
- Germans.
- Books and reading--Fiction.
- Books and reading.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Spanish fiction--Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 284 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Nashville, Tennessee] : Harper Muse, [2025]
- Summary:
- "An exciting and rigorously documented novel by one of the most translated and read Spanish authors in the world. This hopeful and inspiring story in the face of the horror of intolerance is, above all, an indisputable tribute to literature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Madrid, 1934. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when Bárbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a small bookstore. This becomes a place to dream of a free and hopeful future, but the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threatens to destroy everything Barbara has built. It will be her love for letters and for a young Republican that keeps her clinging to a country that faces a spiral of hatred and terror that she knows all too well and that will force her to fight for her life once again.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Spanish.
- Includes discussion questions.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Escobar, Mario, 1971- Bookseller in Madrid
- Online version: Escobar, Mario, 1971- Bookseller in Madrid
- ISBN:
- 9781400347445
- 1400347440
- 9781400347476
- 1400347475
- 9781400353972
- 1400353971
- OCLC:
- 1506197184
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