Nada Audiobook

" The Muensters or the Addams Family set in Barcelona. Poor Andrea, an orphan, winds up living with her Grandma,etc., in the old homestead. A gothic horror story , but with beautiful writing and twists added to keep it from cliche, ensues. "

" I really liked the book but I think the ending was disappointing; like the title, Nada me queda del libro. Not bad, not to read again. "

" Una maravilla de libro. "

" Taut. Terse. Terrible. Loved it. "

" Great book. I've read it a few times. "

" I read this in grad school, in Spanish, 24 years ago, but images and situations from this Gothic novel still stay with me. I don't know if there is a decent English translation in existence. "

" Another Barcelona based novel, this one is a dark coming of age tale which gives a flavor of life under Franco. So different from the current picture you get here. "

" This book was weird and terrible. "

" great. Muy bueno "

" Libro de lectura imprescndible "

" ;A; "

" Nada es una novela donde uno como lector ve a los protagonistas en batalla, drama familiar. Cada personaje es diferente es su propia forma pero cada personaje decea tener lo de los progimos. Mucho drama para Nada. "

" That kind of book that makes you miss the characters from it. Great! "

" Picked this up on a whim; it was a staff selection at the down town library. It was dark and sparse and I felt like I was watching an old black and white movie - in a good way. "

" Powerful novel about the futility felt in post-war Spain. The novel has biographical elements, and the house that the protagonist lives in could be a metaphor for the different sorts of reactions to the war and its aftermath. "

" Set in Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War. Wonderful descriptions of the city, the time and the narrator's creepy family. "

" The Muensters or the Addams Family set in Barcelona. Poor Andrea, an orphan, winds up living with her Grandma,etc., in the old homestead. A gothic horror story , but with beautiful writing and twists added to keep it from cliche, ensues. "

" Haunting tale that is gripping from beginning to end. "

" Picked this up on a whim; it was a staff selection at the down town library. It was dark and sparse and I felt like I was watching an old black and white movie - in a good way. "

" a great read. somehow melancholic but beautiful at the same time. "

" What a brilliant little novel. It documents a young woman's experience of poverty, depression, and sexism at the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Laforet's prose is masterful, poetic and disturbing. "

" I read this in grad school, in Spanish, 24 years ago, but images and situations from this Gothic novel still stay with me. I don't know if there is a decent English translation in existence. "

" Read this in a Spanish language class many years ago and have returned to it several times since. The vocabulary is challenging for a non-native speaker but the effort is worth it. A good book for when you feel like the only person on the planet, or when you want to be. "

" This book was weird and terrible. "

" Why did I know nothing about the Spanish Civil War before I read this book? "