by Fernán Caballero · LIBSA EDITORIAL · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788489715523
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«La familia Alvareda» is a costumbrista novel by Fernán Caballero, published by Libsa Editorial in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Set in rural 19th-century Andalusia, the novel follows a family shaken by jealousy and honor. Fernán Caballero portrays scenes of peasant life, folklore and the social tensions of the time; the action takes place during the Napoleonic invasion and is inspired by events in Dos Hermanas, Seville.
Fernán Caballero is the pseudonym of Cecilia Böhl de Faber. The novel was originally published in 1856 as «La familia de Alvareda»; this edition is from 1997.
For readers of classic Spanish fiction interested in Andalusian costumbrismo and rural stories.
Fernán Caballero was the pseudonym of Spanish novelist Cecilia Francisca Josefa Böhl de Faber y Ruiz de Larrea. She was the daughter of German writer Johann Nikolaus Böhl von Faber and Spanish writer Frasquita Larrea. Her pen name was taken from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real.
