by Erskine Caldwell · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429711639
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«La ruta del tabac» is the novel by Erskine Caldwell published in 1976 by Edicions 62 in paperback (176 pages, in Catalan).
Set in rural Georgia during the Great Depression, it follows the Lester family, white sharecroppers barely surviving on land exhausted by cotton. It portrays poverty, desperation and human degradation with a critical eye on conditions in the American South.
The novel was originally published in 1932 under the title «Tobacco Road». This Catalan edition is part of the El Cangur collection and features a translation by Manuel de Pedrolo.
For readers of classics and American Southern fiction interested in stories with social background.
Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native Southern United States, in novels such as Tobacco Road (1932) and God's Little Acre (1933), won him critical acclaim.
