Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Autore di The Winterlings
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Author: Jorge Aparicio, available under GNU FDL
Opere di Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Sánchez-Andrade, Cristina
- Nome legale
- Sánchez-Andrade Potter, Cristina
- Altri nomi
- Sánchez Andrade, Cristina
- Data di nascita
- 1968-04-05
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Spain
- Luogo di residenza
- Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Madrid, Spain - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2004)
Premio Setenil (2020)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 105
- Popolarità
- #183,191
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 31
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
Readable, slightly surreal, a tad average and melancholic, whilst reading I felt infused with flavours of Darling Buds of May and Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (although unlike ‘One Hundred Years…’ this was sufficiently succinct and enjoyable). The characters are somewhat stereotypical and the plot centres around quintessential village life i.e. everyone being in everyone’s business; intrigue, deception, gossip-mongering and secrets littering the social landscape. Slowly the mysteries are teased out as more and more details of the sisters’ time away are divulged. Alongside this, the growing feelings of malcontent in the village increase and past misdemeanours surface.
The Winterlings is a quick, amusing read but I do wonder how it won the English pen award, since it didn’t pull up any trees. Regardless, I give it a solid and respectable 3/5… (altro)