by Mercedes Salisachs · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432022425
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«Una mujer llega al pueblo» is the novel by Mercedes Salisachs, published by Planeta in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Eulalia, pregnant and alone, returns to her village to give birth, but the community rejects her. Desperate, she takes refuge in a cave, where she gives birth in solitude. Only a fisherman in love with her dares to help her during the three days the story lasts. The novel portrays the moral rigidity of Spain at the time in a village on the Costa Brava.
Fifth edition, of 49,000 copies, in Planeta's Popular collection; published in 1990.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in social portraits with a female protagonist.
Mercedes Salisachs Roviralta was a Spanish writer and novelist. She began her career when she was a teenager and published more than thirty five novels. She wrote and published her last novel in 2013 at the age of 97. She is a recipient of the Premio Planeta de Novela.
