by José Luis Sampedro · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497591638
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«La sonrisa etrusca» is the novel by José Luis Sampedro, published by Debolsillo in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Salvatore, an elderly Calabrian peasant, travels to Milan for a medical check-up at his son's home. There he forms a bond with his grandson Bruno and experiences a final love affair with a woman. The novel explores love in its various forms, family, and old age.
The work, originally published in 1985, belongs to Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection and corresponds to the 2003 edition.
For readers of contemporary Spanish literature interested in the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren and love in maturity.
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.
