by Iris Murdoch · Salvat · tapa dura · ISBN 9788434585270
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«El Hijo de las Palabras» is the novel by Iris Murdoch, published by Salvat in hardback (351 pages, in Spanish).
After escaping juvenile delinquency thanks to his way with words, Hilary Burde seems to have a promising future, but a mistake with a woman plunges him into guilt and resentment. Twenty years later, a chance at redemption forces him to reconcile with his past, with the support of his sister and the arrival of a new woman in his life.
Published in 1987, it belongs to the Novela y Ocio collection.
For readers of literary fiction and fans of Iris Murdoch.
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Her 1978 novel The Sea, The Sea won the Booker Prize. In 1987, she was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to literature. In 2008, The Times ranked Murdoch twelfth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".
