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22 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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'Nada' is a story about a university student called Andrea who has moved to Barcelona to study. She moves in with her Aunt Angustias and there the trouble begins. She starts to learn about the history of her family especially with regards to Ramon and Juan's behaviour towards Gloria. This novel was gripping and factual, it gave a real insight as to the atmosphere in Spain during the civil war. A must read novel, i can well appreciate how it won the 'premio nadal' in 1944.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Like 'the Shaker', I ordered the translation, believing it to be the original Spanish text. As a languages graduate and working translator and teacher, I found this to be a poor translation; however, I'd go further and say that it's an abysmal translation. I actually find it very hard to believe that Edith Grossman, of world renown, was the real translator. The style is clunking, inelegant and unpolished to such a degree that in parts it's very hard to understand what's actually going on. Worse, there are some pretty unforgivable mistranslations: 'Su reacción no se hizo esperar' means 'We didn't have to wait long for his reaction'; it doesn't mean 'His reaction was unexpected', as the translator thinks. More examples available on request! It's not all awful, but for me the very frequent bad bits made it unreadable.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I had to buy this book for my spanish course at uni and accidentally bought the english version. But this way I was able to compare this version to the original. The book is good and well written but the translation in parts is not very good. It's good enough but doesn't represent perfectly what the spanish version says.
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