by Miguel Delibes · Austral · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423353521
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«Los santos inocentes» is the novel by Miguel Delibes, published by Austral in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
The action takes place in rural Extremadura in the 1960s, where the family of Paco, nicknamed «el Bajo», lives in service to an estate under almost feudal conditions. After breaking his fibula, Paco endures the demands of the young master Iván to take part in the hunts, a situation that reveals the abuses and arrogance of the wealthy class and the fortitude of those who suffer them.
Austral's Contemporánea collection, with a prologue by Javier Pérez Escohotado. The novel was originally published in 1981.
High school reading for the EvAU in the Community of Aragon; for readers of contemporary Spanish fiction.
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.
