📗 Libro en inglés THE HOLY INNOCENTS
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS - 9780300275131
Sinopsis de THE HOLY INNOCENTS
A shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco’s dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist
“A ferocious story.”―The Guardian
“[Delibes] is a master of compression, using the art of omission to convey a slow-burning sense of injustice. . . . Peter Bush’s exemplary translation remains faithful to Delibes’s Castilian original.”―Tobias Grey, Financial Times
Named one of the 100 best Spanish-language novels of the 20th century (El Mundo) • Adapted into an award-winning film by Mario Camus
In the arid province of Extremadura in 1960s Spain, life on a country estate carries on as it has for centuries: wealthy landowners live in luxury while workers endure lives of poverty and humiliation. Amid this exploitation and injustice live Régula, an estate’s gatekeeper, and her husband, Paco, the hunting attendant of the contemptuous Señorito Iván. Régula’s brother Azarías toils as a farmhand, but he prefers chasing tawny owls at night, training his pet jackdaw, and caring for his young niece, who is bedridden. When Paco is injured, the nature-loving Azarías is forced to take over as hunting attendant. But after Señorito Iván commits an act of enormous cruelty following an unsuccessful hunt, it is only a matter of time before the simmering tensions between the aristocracy and the workers explode.
“A ferocious story.”―The Guardian
“[Delibes] is a master of compression, using the art of omission to convey a slow-burning sense of injustice. . . . Peter Bush’s exemplary translation remains faithful to Delibes’s Castilian original.”―Tobias Grey, Financial Times
Named one of the 100 best Spanish-language novels of the 20th century (El Mundo) • Adapted into an award-winning film by Mario Camus
In the arid province of Extremadura in 1960s Spain, life on a country estate carries on as it has for centuries: wealthy landowners live in luxury while workers endure lives of poverty and humiliation. Amid this exploitation and injustice live Régula, an estate’s gatekeeper, and her husband, Paco, the hunting attendant of the contemptuous Señorito Iván. Régula’s brother Azarías toils as a farmhand, but he prefers chasing tawny owls at night, training his pet jackdaw, and caring for his young niece, who is bedridden. When Paco is injured, the nature-loving Azarías is forced to take over as hunting attendant. But after Señorito Iván commits an act of enormous cruelty following an unsuccessful hunt, it is only a matter of time before the simmering tensions between the aristocracy and the workers explode.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300275131
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 13/05/2025
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Miguel Delibes
Miguel Delibes (Valladolid, 1920-2010) se dio a conocer como novelista con La sombra del ciprés es alargada, Premio Nadal 1947. Entre su vasta obra narrativa destacan Mi idolatrado hijo Sisí, El camino, Las ratas, Cinco horas con Mario, Las guerras de nuestros antepasados, El disputado voto del señor Cayo, Los santos inocentes, Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris o El hereje. Fue galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Literatura (1955), el Premio de la Crítica (1962), el Premio Nacional de las Letras (1991) y el Premio Cervantes de Literatura (1993). Desde 1973 era miembro de la Real Academia Española. Ediciones Destino ha publicado sus Obras completas.
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