by Miguel Delibes · Planeta Pub Corp · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408039709
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«Los santos inocentes» is the novel by Miguel Delibes, published by Planeta in paperback (175 pages, in Spanish).
The novel shows a family of Extremaduran peasants subjected to misery and the power of the estate owners. Miguel Delibes combines realism and lyricism to tell the characters' relationship with the land, animals and nature, in an allegory about inequalities in the rural world.
«Los santos inocentes» was originally published in 1981 and adapted into a movie by Mario Camus in 1983; the novel sold over 300,000 copies.
For readers of Spanish fiction and for those studying the work of Miguel Delibes in academic contexts.
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied letter "e" seat. Educated in commerce, he began his career as a cartoonist and columnist. He later became the editor for the regional newspaper El Norte de Castilla before gradually devoting himself exclusively to writing novels.
