by Antonio Ferres · VIAMONTE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495086822
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«La piqueta» is the social realism novel by Antonio Ferres, published by Viamonte in paperback (225 pages, in Spanish).
A family of immigrants lives in an illegal shack on a vacant lot on the outskirts of Madrid; a municipal demolition order looms over them. The novel portrays the defeated of the Civil War under the dictatorship, with bare language and turns of popular speech; the pickaxe becomes a symbol of repression and powerlessness.
Work originally published in 1959, first novel by Antonio Ferres. The Viamonte edition belongs to the Encuentros Collection (no. 8) and includes a prologue by Javier Alfaya.
For readers interested in Spanish social realism and in narrative set in postwar Spain.
