by Ramiro Pinilla · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467223378
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«La Higuera» is the novel by Ramiro Pinilla published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (280 pages).
In 1966, construction work in Getxo brings to light the story of a man who, after the Civil War, decided to shut himself away beside a fig tree. The novel focuses on Rogelio Cerón, a Falangist who crosses paths with the hateful gaze of a boy when he takes away his father, and becomes convinced that this boy will kill him. Cerón tries to bend that fate by watching over his life.
The work was originally published in 2006; this edition by Círculo de Lectores, in Spanish, appeared in 2007.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the Civil War, historical memory and the traces of the past.
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.
