by Ramiro Pinilla · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483832004
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«Las ciegas hormigas» is the literary novel by Ramiro Pinilla, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (328 pages, in Spanish).
A storm wrecks an English coal ship off Getxo and the townspeople go to salvage it. Sabas Jáuregui involves his sons and brother-in-law in the salvage, but the night ends in tragedy and the family must face poverty and grudges, in a portrait of rural postwar Spain and survival.
Winner of the Premio Nadal 1961 and the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1962, the novel was originally published in 1961. This 2010 edition belongs to the Andanzas collection.
For readers of Spanish fiction and survival stories set in postwar Spain.
Ramiro Pinilla (1923–2014) was a Spanish writer. He was born in Bilbao in 1923. He won the Premio Nadal in 1960 for his novel Las ciegas hormigas. He left the literary circuit for many years and did not emerge again until the 2000s, when he released his Basque trilogy of novels titled Verdes valles, Colinas rojas to great critical acclaim. He died in 2014.
