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Beschreibung
Concha Espina's Snow Water is a finely wrought novel of moral climate and emotional thaw, in which private suffering is set against the larger pressures of class, family duty, and social expectation. Written in a lucid, lyrical realism, the book joins the Spanish regionalist tradition to the introspective currents of early twentieth-century fiction. Espina's prose is attentive to landscape and atmosphere, using the image of snow-water-cold, pure, transient-as a metaphor for suppressed feeling and fragile renewal. Espina, born in Santander in 1869, was one of the most distinguished Spanish women writers of her generation and a repeated candidate for the Nobel Prize. Her fiction often drew upon northern Spain, Catholic moral culture, and the precarious position of women within domestic and public life. Having experienced economic hardship, transatlantic travel, and literary struggle in a male-dominated field, she wrote with unusual sympathy for lives constrained by convention. Snow Water is recommended to readers interested in Spanish modern fiction, women's writing, and psychologically observant realism. It rewards those who value elegant prose, ethical complexity, and novels in which landscape becomes a mirror of the soul.
Concha Espina's Snow Water is a finely wrought novel of moral climate and emotional thaw, in which private suffering is set against the larger pressures of class, family duty, and social expectation. Written in a lucid, lyrical realism, the book joins the Spanish regionalist tradition to the introspective currents of early twentieth-century fiction. Espina's prose is attentive to landscape and atmosphere, using the image of snow-water-cold, pure, transient-as a metaphor for suppressed feeling and fragile renewal. Espina, born in Santander in 1869, was one of the most distinguished Spanish women writers of her generation and a repeated candidate for the Nobel Prize. Her fiction often drew upon northern Spain, Catholic moral culture, and the precarious position of women within domestic and public life. Having experienced economic hardship, transatlantic travel, and literary struggle in a male-dominated field, she wrote with unusual sympathy for lives constrained by convention. Snow Water is recommended to readers interested in Spanish modern fiction, women's writing, and psychologically observant realism. It rewards those who value elegant prose, ethical complexity, and novels in which landscape becomes a mirror of the soul.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9788028512408
ISBN-10: 8028512402
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Espina, Concha
Hersteller: Copycat
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße: 229 x 152 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Concha Espina
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,304 kg
Artikel-ID: 134416153