by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420699981
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«Los gozos y las sombras» is the three-part novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, published by FisicalBook in hardback (464 pages, in Spanish).
In 1930s Galicia, the return of Carlos Deza, last descendant of the Churruchaos, destabilises a coastal town immersed in social and economic change. His struggle with Cayetano Salgado, the town's new master, condenses personal passions and the clash between two eras and mindsets.
Published in 1971, the work comprises three parts titled «El señor llega», «Donde da la vuelta el aire» and «La pascua triste».
For readers of Spanish fiction who enjoy stories with a rural setting and tensions between tradition and change.
Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by composers Hugo Wolf and Ignaz Lachner in their symphonic works.
