by Ramiro Pinilla · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483830185
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Based on real events, this novel tells the life of Antonio B. from his birth in León in the thirties to the seventies, after the Franco regime. Antonio B. faces a hard existence, stealing to eat and suffering maternal abandonment and mistreatment by the authority. He knows prisons, penitentiaries and the asylum, until he finds work in the Basque Country and manages to straighten out his life. A shocking story of life during the postwar period, the hardships, hatred and the struggle to escape repression.
Ramiro Pinilla (1923–2014) was a Spanish writer. He was born in Bilbao in 1923. He won the Premio Nadal in 1960 for his novel Las ciegas hormigas. He left the literary circuit for many years and did not emerge again until the 2000s, when he released his Basque trilogy of novels titled Verdes valles, Colinas rojas to great critical acclaim. He died in 2014.
