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[DeepL Translation - needs review] "With all these ingredients (an oppressive era, a rustic and gloomy landscape, protagonists of singular idiosyncrasy, a story of violent passions and impossible loves) the most sensible thing to do would have been to give up. But naturally, the risk appealed to me." Eduardo Mendoza Mendoza narrates the conflict in which Sister Consuelo, a nun who runs a dilapidated hospital, finds herself involved. To obtain financing, she turns to the cacique of San Ubald...
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Page Count:
192
ISBN:
8432229458
ISBN13:
9788432229459
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A love story set in Catalonia, this is my favourite Mendoza novel.
Mendoza writes in quite an old-fashioned literary style, which some people don’t like, but it is an excellent way of improving your vocabulary.