by William Golding · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420630960
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«Ritos de paso» is the novel by William Golding, published by Alianza in paperback (278 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place aboard a ship bound for Australia and follows a young English aristocrat who narrates in his diary the complex relationships between passengers and crew. Through its rites and ceremonies, it explores social class, power, morality, and the loss of innocence during colonial expansion.
Novel winner of the Booker Prize in 1980, translated by Fernando Santos Fontenla and published in 1983 in the Alianza Tres collection (no. 96). It belongs to the trilogy «To the Ends of the Earth».
Recommended for readers of historical and literary fiction interested in classic twentieth-century British narrative.
Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his debut novel Lord of the Flies (1954), Golding published another 12 volumes of fiction in his lifetime. In 1980, Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. Golding was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
