by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · ISBN 9788401371523
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«Cañas y barro» is the realist novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published by Editorial Planeta (251 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Albufera of Valencia, the work follows the lives of the area's fishermen and rice farmers: their customs, struggles and loves. The narrative combines realism with costumbrismo and criticises the social injustices and labour exploitation of Valencian society at the time.
The novel was published in 1902.
Suitable for readers of Spanish realist and costumbrista novels.
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.
