Bajarás al reino de la tierra

Synopsis of Bajarás al reino de la tierra

«Bajarás al reino de la tierra» is the novel by José Luis Ferris, published by Editorial Planeta in 1999, in paperback (244 pages, in Spanish).

In October 1956, a young graduate arrives in Salamanca to prepare a doctoral thesis on unsatisfied love in Golden Age poetry, but his idealism clashes with a sordid crime. The novel contrasts the purest ideals and the dirtiest actions of a provincial city, where love and death coexist with dignity and the unexpected. Ferris renews the coming-of-age novel by showing how life imposes its own plot.

It belongs to the Autores Españoles e Iberoamericanos collection. It won the Premio Azorín de Novela in its 23rd edition (1999).

For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and coming-of-age novels set in postwar Spain.