by Miguel Delibes · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221224
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«Los santos inocentes» is the novel by Miguel Delibes, published by Seix Barral in hardback (178 pages, in Spanish).
«Los santos inocentes» is set in the Extremadura countryside of the 1960s and follows a humble family who live and work on an estate. The novel shows the poverty, exploitation and degrading treatment suffered by the peasants at the hands of the landowners, and soberly portrays their dignity and resistance. It is a social critique of rural Spain.
Novel originally published in 1981, in the Obras maestras de la literatura contemporánea collection.
For readers of Spanish fiction and contemporary classics, with an interest in the social portrayal of rural life.
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.
