Books by Ana María Matute
“I’ve heard someone compare it to a Paula Rego painting and I’ve never heard a better comparison between a book and art. It’s exactly like that: the moon, the plants, the action, you’re not really sure what’s going on. A sinister feeling permeates it. It’s a really unsettling story, one of the most memorable books of a childhood I’ve ever read.” Read more...
Tom Newlands, Novelist
Interviews where books by Ana María Matute were recommended
Coming of Age Novels, recommended by Tom Newlands
Adolescence is an “electrifying” time of self-definition, explains the award-winning novelist Tom Newlands. Here he recommends five of the best ‘coming of age’ novels that capture the porosity and potential of those vivid teenage years when everything, just everything, seems possible.
