Book "Nothing" Carmen Laforet

In the post-war period, young Andrea arrives in Barcelona with great illusions and dreams to study and start a new life at her grandmother's house, where, alas, those dreams and illusions are ruthlessly shattered, because in that house there is only hunger, violence and hatred. In the gloomy, dirty, smelly, oppressive and suffocating atmosphere created in the novel, when one of the characters is asked what happened, what is happening, or how he feels, the latter answers: "Nothing." Carmen Laforet is ahead of her time with her intimate and photographic prose, wonderfully depicting the Barcelona of that period.