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Gonzalez, Bea

Bitter Taste of Time

HarperCollins Canada, 1998

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(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
1998
ISBN
0002245736
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Gonzalez, Bea
Publishers
HarperCollins Canada
Edition
1st Canadian Edition
Keyword
Fiction Spain Civil War SPANISH CANADIAN AUTHOR
Cover description
As New
Binding description
H
Inscription description
Signed by Author(s)
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
Yes
First edition
Yes

Description

Set in northern Spain from 1920 to the present, The Bitter Taste of Time is the compelling story of the Encarna women, whose lives are both tragic and beautiful. After the death of her husband, the family's gorgeous and imposing matriarch, Maria Encarna, turns her granite house into a pensiÛn, opening it up to strangers with colorful stories and dark pasts. There she lives with her two unmarried sisters, her two daughters, and her granddaughter. Through the Spanish Civil War, a dictatorship, and the early years of a new democracy, the Encarnas become the wealthiest family in town. Yet despite their success and tenacity, tragedy comes calling, usually in the form of a man - and almost always on a Friday. By turns funny and moving.a thoroughly entertaining read. 255p. Sticker on front cover. Author signature on title page. else new