by José María de Pereda · Cátedra · ISBN 9788440204998
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«Peñas arriba» is the novel of Spanish realism by José María de Pereda, published by Cátedra in 1988 (271 pages, in Spanish).
The novel narrates the arrival of a young man from Madrid at his uncle’s home in the Picos de Europa, where the landscape and the peasant life of the Cantabrian mountains provoke a deep inner change in him. Pereda depicts traditional customs and asserts the authenticity of the rural world against modern life.
For readers interested in 19th-century Spanish regionalist literature and in the defense of traditional values against urban life.
José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
