by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Plaza & Janés Editores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401805356
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«Arroz y tartana» is the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published by Plaza & Janés Editores in paperback (259 pages, in Spanish).
«Arroz y tartana» follows a bourgeois family from Valencia, dedicated to trade, who try to maintain their status and appearances while facing financial difficulties. Amid markets, customs and social ambitions, the work portrays Valencian society at the end of the 19th century and criticises the obsession with luxury and what people will say.
«Arroz y tartana» was originally published in 1894; the 1976 edition is part of the «Obra de V. Blasco Ibáñez» collection.
For readers of classic Spanish fiction and novels set in 19th-century Valencia.
Valencian novelist and politician, author of La Barraca, Reeds and Mud and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a major international bestseller of his day.
