Lit in Translation

Lydie Salvayre

Born 1946 · France

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Goncourt 2014 · Winner

    Cry, Mother Spain

    Pas pleurer

    Lydie Salvayre · 68 when first published

    Novel · 278 pages · War, Historical, Family

    AI-generated summary:Two voices intertwine: that of Georges Bernanos, who denounces the Nationalist terror of the Spanish Civil War, and that of the narrator’s mother Montse, who remembers only the joyful days of the 1936 revolution.