by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401805424
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«La barraca» is the naturalist novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (234 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Valencian huerta, it narrates the arrival of Batiste Borrull and his family, who rent a barraca on cursed land and suffer the hostility of their neighbours. Blasco Ibáñez portrays the struggle for survival, social injustice and the harshness of peasant life against the landowners.
The novel was originally published in 1898; this Plaza & Janés edition is from 1977 and belongs to the Obra de V. Blasco Ibáñez series.
For readers interested in classics of Spanish literature and in the social portrait of the Valencian countryside.
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.
