by Salvador Garmendia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788421102930
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«Memorias de Altagracia» is the novel by Salvador Garmendia, published by Barral in paperback (206 pages, in Spanish).
«Memorias de Altagracia» follows the education of a Venezuelan boy in a rural setting, guided by a pastor who takes him to town and exposes him to the temptations of life. With a point of view close to childhood, the novel portrays a peasant world marked by tenderness and harshness, and the protagonist's learning between nature and society.
«Memorias de Altagracia» belongs to the Hispánica Nova collection (number 93) in its first edition of 1974, published in Barcelona.
For readers of Venezuelan fiction and the Latin American boom, as well as coming-of-age novels set in the rural world.
Salvador Garmendia Graterón was a notable Venezuelan author, awarded in 1972 with the National Prize for Literature. In 1989, he received the Juan Rulfo Prize for Tan desnuda como una piedra.
