by Miguel Delibes · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423342440
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Las ratas is a novel by the Spanish writer Miguel Delibes, published in 1962 and winner of the Critics Award that same year. The work portrays the hard life in a Castilian village, where the geographical and social environment determines the destiny of its inhabitants. Among them stands out the figure of the Ratero and, above all, that of the Nini, a child who lives suffering and tries to rebel against the sordidness that surrounds him, becoming a symbol of candor against cunning and modesty against vanity.
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.
