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The Garden with Seven Gates (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
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The Garden with Seven Gates (Hardcover, illustrated Edition)
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This collection of fourteen stories and one minidrama features
children protagonists, talking birds, and extraordinary
occurrences. Like the tales of Charles Perrault and the brothers
Grimm, they speak to fantasies and fears that are our constant
companions in life, which means that although they are peopled with
children protagonists, they are not for children alone. The
introduction provides background on Concha Castroviejo and
considers her production of juvenile literature in mid
twentieth-century Spain and in relation to authors like Elizabeth
Mulder and Maria Luisa Gefaell; it then takes up themes in the book
and discusses them. The Spanish author Concha Castroviejo (1910-95)
was born in the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela. After
studies at the university there and in France, she fled to Mexico
with her husband following the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and did
not return to Spain until 1950. She published two novels: Those Who
Went Away (Los que se fueron, 1957) and Eve of Hate (Vispera del
odio, 1959), both with the Spanish Civil War as background; two
children's books: The Garden with Seven Gates (El jardin de las
siete puertas, 1961) and Lina's Days (Los dias de Lina, 1971); and
short fiction, literary criticism, and journalism in La Estafeta
Literaria, Insula, Q. P., La hoja del Lunes, and Informaciones. Her
writings received a number of literary prizes and her works have
been translated into French, Slovak, and English.
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