by Fernando Vizcaíno Casas · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408026822
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«Hijas de María» is the costumbrista novel by Fernando Vizcaíno Casas, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (206 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, it follows middle-class schoolgirls educated in religious schools. Pilar, Isabel and their friends, with formal boyfriends like Tomás and Demetrio, show the school and family life of young women beginning to leave childhood behind. A costumbrista novel with detailed evocation and tender melancholy.
The work belongs to the Biblioteca F. Vizcaíno Casas collection and was published by Editorial Planeta in 1998.
Recommended for readers of costumbrista fiction and contemporary Spanish narrative interested in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s.
Fernando Vizcaíno Casas (1926–2003) was a Spanish labour lawyer, journalist and writer. His writings were generally supportive of Francoist Spain. During the 1970s and 1980s he collaborated with the director Rafael Gil on a number of films that supported this point of view. He wrote ...Y al tercer año, resucitó, Niñas… ¡al salón!, De "camisa vieja" a chaqueta nueva, 1975/El año en que Franco murió en la cama, and Viva Franco, con perdón, between others.
