This novel is both an allegory of brutality and innocence, oppression and exploitation in Franco's Spain, and a critique of the church, sexual corruption and moral hypocrisy, focusing on the life of Paula, who hates her parents and withdraws into an obsessive fantasy world of her own creation. The author is winner of the Prix Hermes.
- ISBN10 0701131187
- ISBN13 9780701131180
- Publish Date 11 April 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English