by William Faulkner · Genérico · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475300887
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«Santuario» is the novel by American writer William Faulkner, published by Orbis in 1982 in hardcover (334 pages, in Spanish).
In the American South, lawyer Horace Benbow defends Lee Goodwin, accused of murder at an illegal distillery hidden among the trees. There live Ruby, who has sacrificed everything for Lee, and Popeye, a sadistic gangster. Benbow needs the testimony of Temple Drake, a young woman drawn to danger who has disappeared.
Work originally published as «Sanctuary» in 1931, translated into Spanish by José Luis López Muñoz. 1982 edition from the «Los Premios Nobel» collection; Faulkner received the award in 1949.
For readers of crime fiction and American classics; the work that introduced Faulkner to the general public.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
