by Tomás Salvador · Ediciones Orbis, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788476341216
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Cuerda de presos» is the novel by Tomás Salvador published by Ediciones Orbis in 1985 in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
Set in an era when justice required detainees to be moved on foot, the novel follows two civil guards who escort a dangerous prisoner, Juan Díaz de Argandoña, nicknamed El Sacamantecas, for eleven days along plains and mountain paths. Three men in forced coexistence and solitude, far from the city.
The work belongs to the collection Grandes autores españoles del siglo XX (no. 66) and won the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona in 1954 and the Premio Nacional de Literatura Miguel de Cervantes in 1955.
For readers of twentieth-century Spanish classics, interested in the tension of a forced transfer and the relationship between three men forced to live together.
