by Ignacio Aldecoa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420442334
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«Gran Sol» is Ignacio Aldecoa's social novel of manners, published by Alfaguara in paperback (304 pages, in Spanish).
The work takes the reader to deep-sea fishing in the Cantabrian Sea, where sailors live with the harshness of the trade, poverty and the constant threat of the sea. Aldecoa, who knew that world first-hand, portrays the crew's daily life, their conversations, labor conflicts and the bond between men and nature, without idealizing misery but giving the story great human truth.
Novel originally published in 1957, it received the Premio de la Crítica de Narrativa Castellana in 1958. It is part of the Alfaguara Hispánica collection.
Recommended for readers of 20th-century Spanish fiction and of realistic stories about work, the sea and the dignity of simple men.
José Ignacio Aldecoa e Isasi was a Spanish writer. He was the nephew of the painter Adrián Aldecoa.
