by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401805257
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«Cañas y barro» is the realist novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (251 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Albufera of Valencia, it narrates the lives of three generations of the Palomas family: the grandfather, the lake's best fisherman; his son Tono, determined to win land from the water; and Tonet, the rebellious grandson who ends up bringing disgrace on them all. A portrait of rural Spain in the late nineteenth century undergoing profound social change.
Work first published in 1902; this edition belongs to the Obra de V. Blasco Ibáñez collection.
For readers interested in classics of Spanish literature and in the portrayal of rural Spain.
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.
