Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Auteur van The Winterlings
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Fotografie: Author: Jorge Aparicio, available under GNU FDL
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Sánchez-Andrade, Cristina
- Officiële naam
- Sánchez-Andrade Potter, Cristina
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Sánchez Andrade, Cristina
- Geboortedatum
- 1968-04-05
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Spain
- Woonplaatsen
- Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Madrid, Spain - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (2004)
Premio Setenil (2020)
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Besprekingen
Lijsten
Prijzen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 14
- Leden
- 105
- Populariteit
- #183,191
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 7
- ISBNs
- 31
- Talen
- 5
- Favoriet
- 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… (meer)