by Jesús Fernández Santos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434580473
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«Los bravos» is the novel by Spanish writer Jesús Fernández Santos, published by Salvat in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
A young doctor arrives in a village in León, on the border with Asturias, where some sixty people live. The community scrapes by on herding, poaching, an old car and a tavern, under the rule of don Prudencio, the local boss. His attempt to practise medicine clashes with the harshness of the surroundings and the established power.
1982 edition with a prologue by Carmen Martín Gaite, part of the Biblioteca Básica Salvat collection (number 44). The novel was originally published in 1954.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction looking for a novel with a rural setting and social tensions.
Jesús Fernández Santos was a Spanish novelist, short story writer, film critic, film director and documentarist.
