by Miguel Delibes · Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423308057
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«Las ratas» is the novel by writer Miguel Delibes, published by Destino in paperback (164 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays rural life in the Castile of the 1960s through Nini, a boy who knows the secrets of the countryside, and Tío Ratero, an old rat hunter. Delibes reflects the drama of a rural Castile marked by misery, but also its grandeur, with the boy's quiet and sweet rebellion as a symbol of the struggle against the sordidness of the environment.
Las ratas won the Premio de la Crítica in 1962.
For readers of Spanish fiction and those interested in literature that portrays rural Spain.
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
