The Trap
By Ana María MatuteTranslated by María José de la Cámara and Robert Nugent
ISBN: 0-935480-81-1
Price: $16.00
Pages: 160
In The Trap, Ana María Matute explores ties that bind family, society and culture. Through a powerful feminine first-person narrative, Matute highlights the experience of women during the tumultuous years of the Spanish Civil War. In this third novel of the famous trilogy, The Merchants, the author examines the lasting effects of social upheaval, discrimination and lives trapped in conflict.
Ana María Matute is the most prominent woman writer of 20th century Spain. Her novels and short stories have won many prestigious literary awards including the Premio Nacional de Literatura, Premio Nadal, Premio de la Crítica and Premio Café de Gijón, as well as being considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"The narrator feels that she has always been at the mercy of men and recalls that while she was chatty and behaved badly in school before the Spanish Civil War, afterward she became first subdued and docile as a boarding student and then completely mute....there are pasages of beautiful writing here, and the translation flows easily...."
--Publishers Weekly