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The House on the Beach (Paperback)
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The House on the Beach (Paperback)
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"The House on the Beach" is a novel set in the years after the
Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator Francisco
Franco. This is a time when women had little independence; they
were expected to lead prescribed lives, dominated by first their
fathers and then their husbands. Rocio and Inma first meet as
children. Despite coming from very different social backgrounds
they form a close friendship. Rocio is the daughter of an
Andalucian peasant, who makes his living from the land, growing
olives and keeping goats; Inma is the daughter of a rich
businessman, who lives and works in Madrid. The story follows the
lives of these two girls from childhood to maturity, as they share
happiness, fears, disappointments, broken hearts and betrayals.
Rocio is a shy and trusting girl, who becomes easily seduced by a
handsome foreigner, while Inma, confident and manipulative, is the
one who saves her from disgrace and the inevitable expulsion from
the family home. Inma, a university student, soon becomes involved
in student demonstrations and political subterfuge; all of which
she confides to Rocio. But when Inma too becomes pregnant, things
take a more sinister turn and her subsequent actions have a
devastating affect on Rocio and her husband. This social drama of
two women trying to take control of their lives, despite living
under a harsh dictatorship, offers a glimpse of what life was like
in an authoritarian State, with an ever watchful Catholic Church
and the close strictures of society.
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