![]() ![]() In an opinion article in The New York Times in 2013, Ms. ![]() Her last published novel was the fifth installment in the series, “La madre de Frankenstein” (“The Mother of Frankenstein”), released in 2020. Last year, the fourth installment in her series, “Los pacientes del doctor García” (“The Patients of Doctor García”), won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature, as well as the prestigious National Prize for Narrative, awarded by the Spanish culture ministry. Grandes’s series, “Inés y la alegría” (“Inés and Happiness”), which was published in 2010 and won three literary prizes, tells the story of a group of left-wing guerrillas fighting Franco’s forces. She called her project “Episodios de una Guerra Interminable” (“Episodes in an Interminable War”), akin to one of Spain’s most famous literary series, the “ Episodios Nacionales” (“National Episodes”), written by Benito Pérez Galdós in the late 19th century. Grandes started her six-novel series, set during the first 25 years of Franco’s dictatorship, from 1939 to 1964. It was on the back of the success of “The Frozen Heart” that Ms. ![]() One of her more recent best sellers in Spain - “El Corazón Helado” (“The Frozen Heart”), publishd in 2007 - starts with the funeral of a powerful businessman, attended by a mysterious woman, during which an inheritance of money and documents comes to light and helps unravel a troubled family saga dating back to the ravages of the Spanish Civil War. Grandes’s novels are set during the Franco dictatorship. ![]()
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