Also living in the crumbling house is a strict, controlling aunt Angustias, a roguish, but musically talented uncle, Roman, another uncle, Juan, who abuses his beautiful wife Gloria. Her frail, devoutly Catholic grandmother seems unaware of her miserable surroundings. She travels to Barcelona to the home of her grandmother, only to find it filthy and falling apart. The government has awarded Andrea a scholarship and a subsistence stipend so that she can attend university. The novel is narrated by its main character, Andrea, an orphan, who has fond memories of her well off family in Barcelona, and has been raised in a convent in provincial Spain. The novel is set in post Spanish Civil War Barcelona. Nada, which means "nothing" in Spanish, is the first novel of Spanish author Carmen Laforet, published in 1945.
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