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Nothing carmen laforet5/9/2023 The household has fallen into disrepair, and is filled with cobwebs, dust, and piles of her grandmother’s fine furniture, which Gloria is selling off, piece-by-piece, to a local rag merchant. Upon moving in with her family, Andrea discovers that they’ve been forced to sell half of the home after her grandfather’s death, moving their belongings into a tight, cramped space. They include her Aunt Angustias, a tyrannical Catholic woman her Uncle Román, an eccentric, formerly renowned musician her Uncle Juan, a failed painter who abuses his beautiful young wife, Gloria and Gloria, a spirited young woman from a poor family, of whom Angustias disapproves. She moves in with estranged family members living in her formerly well-off (but now impoverished) grandmother’s apartment on Calle de Aribau. The novel begins with Andrea leaving a sleepy remote Spanish province to attend university, having learned that the Spanish government has given her a full scholarship.
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