by José Luis Sampedro · RBA Editores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447301225
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«La sonrisa etrusca» is the novel by José Luis Sampedro, published by RBA Editores in hardback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Salvatore Roncone, an elderly Calabrian peasant, arrives in Milan for cancer treatment and lives with his son's bourgeois family. Between the rural world he longs for and the big city, the grandfather pours his tenderness into his grandson Bruno and evokes his past as a young partisan. A novel about illness, the generation gap and the meaning of life.
The novel was originally published in 1985. This edition belongs to the Narrativa actual collection. Authors of the Spanish language (no. 2).
Aimed at readers of contemporary Spanish literature, particularly those seeking novels about family, old age and memory.
José Luis Sampedro Sáez was a Spanish economist and writer who advocated an economy "more humane, more caring, able to help develop the dignity of peoples". Academician of the Real Academia Española since 1990, he was the recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain, the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2010) and the Spanish Literature National Prize (2011). He became an inspiration for the anti-austerity movement in Spain.
