by Louis Bromfield · Santillana S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788403095557
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«Vinieron las lluvias» is the novel by Louis Bromfield published by Santillana S.A. in hardcover (788 pages, in Spanish).
In Ranchipur, India, on the eve of the monsoon, the novel follows the romance between Ransome, a disillusioned man, and Fern, an idealistic young woman. Around them, characters of diverse backgrounds and interests intersect, including a maharaja who tries to balance tradition with the progress of his people.
Work originally published as «The Rains Came» in 1937; this edition includes the translation by Juan García-Puente and belongs to the El Novelón de la Ser collection.
For readers of classic and historical fiction interested in stories set in India.
Louis Bromfield was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement.
