The BURIED Book Club discussion

Ana María Matute (1925-2014) is a celebrated Spanish writer. Despite some of her books being rather popular (in relative terms to our other buried brethren--we're talking 400 ratings), only a handful of her books have been translated into English. And these translated books seem virtually unread.

Here are the books of hers that I found available in English:
School of the Sun (novel)
The Heliotrope Wall and Other Stories (stories)
Los hijos muertos (translated as The Lost Children -- my local university library has it, but Goodreads has not catalogued this English edition yet. I'm thinking it's probably pretty rare)
Celebration in the Northwest
Soldiers Cry By Night

I just read School of the Sun. It is a masterpiece, and you can read my review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Here's an article about her life: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/boo...

Jimmy wrote: "Los hijos muertos (translated as The Lost Children -- my local university library has it, but Goodreads has not catalogued this English edition yet. I'm thinking it's probably pretty rare"

amazon's got some for cheap. It was pub'd in 1965 ::
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listin...

AAA (and also abe) ::
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Searc...

[but notice how garbled the author entries are in both above listings]

AAW (and also Worldcat) [200 copies] ::
http://www.worldcat.org/title/lost-ch...

Oh good to know!

Jimmy wrote: "Oh good to know!"

And it may just be my biased prejudice, but I suspect that her The Lost Children novel might be a better=read than the one I was promoting yesterday, the one which didn't give Mockingbird a run for its money. But it might just be me having a knee-jerk reaction to being enticed by Spanish Language Novels.

Probably predictably, Jimmy, I'm quite curious after reading your and Wendy's reviews for her books. I'm snapping up a School of the Sun. Thanks!

Yay! Hope you love it as much as I did.