by José Luis Sampedro · Círculo de Lectores · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422628002
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«El río que nos lleva» is the novel by José Luis Sampedro, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (369 pages, in Spanish).
The gancheros were the men who transported pines along the Tagus to Aranjuez. They are joined by Paula, a mysterious woman who ignites the passions of the group, and Shannon, an Irishman just out of the European war who discovers the dignity of this trade. The novel portrays rural Spain and a vanished world.
The work was originally published in 1961; this edition from Círculo de Lectores is from 1989.
For readers of 20th-century Spanish fiction interested in vanished trades and rural Spain.
José Luis Sampedro Sáez was a Spanish economist and writer who advocated an economy "more humane, more caring, able to help develop the dignity of peoples". Academician of the Real Academia Española since 1990, he was the recipient of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain, the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2010) and the Spanish Literature National Prize (2011). He became an inspiration for the anti-austerity movement in Spain.
