Back Room

Fiction. Cultural Writing. "The Back Room" was the first of Gaite's novels to appear in Spain after the death of Franco, and the first to be translated into English In 1978 it was awarded Spain's National Prize for Literature. Translated from the Spanish by Helen Lane, "The Back Room" describes a woman's conversation with a nighttime guest, to whom she tells the story of a woman coming of age in the repressive Spain of the Franco era. An intimate and existential confession -- part autobiography, part fiction -- Gaite's finest work explores the back room of memory with a quiet but irresistible power.Martín Gaite, Carmen is the author of 'Back Room' with ISBN 9780231054584 and ISBN 0231054580.