by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420638317
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«Los gozos y las sombras. 1. El señor llega» is the novel that opens the trilogy by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester; Alianza, paperback, 465 pages, in Spanish.
In Pueblanueva del Conde, a feudal Galicia in decline confronts a rising modern society. The return of a descendant of the local aristocratic family reopens the struggle for power with Cayetano Salgado, a bourgeois who has amassed a fortune; that clash defines the central conflict of the trilogy.
First instalment of the trilogy «Los gozos y las sombras», completed by «Donde da la vuelta el aire» and «La Pascua triste». Work originally published in 1971.
Readers of contemporary Spanish narrative and literary fiction, with an interest in rural sagas and social conflicts in twentieth-century Galicia.
Gonzalo Torrente Ballester was a Spanish writer associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
