Review of 'Nada' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
That was unpleasant. This was not at all what I had expected. "Nada" is considered semi-autobiographical. All I can is I feel sorry for Carmen Laforet. The story is about Andrea, an orphan, who goes to stay - I am not going to say live - with some very strange relatives while she tries to further her education. Her relatives - her grandmother, Aunt Augustias, Uncles Juan and Roman, and Juan's wife Gloria - are very strange people, who don't seem to live in the same world with the rest of us. The whole atmosphere of the book is deeply gothic and suffocating. It's like Andrea is a prisoner - and the ends up feeling that way too. Or at least I did. I was very glad to finish. It's nothing that I will ever read again.
