by Jesús Torbado · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408015130
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«Las corrupciones» is the novel by Jesús Torbado, published by Planeta in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The novel focuses on the drama of thousands of young Spaniards born in the postwar period: a generation marked by orphanhood, which did not take part in the conflict but bore its consequences. Torbado addresses corruption and its effects on society with a raw and desperate gaze, and portrays those who grew up after the war.
The work belongs to the Planeta Bolsillo collection, Literary series. The first edition of «Las corrupciones» dates from 1975.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the legacy of the postwar period.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
