Miguel Delibes, Author , trans. from the Spanish by Alfred MacAdam. Overlook $24.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-58567-570-8
Winner of the 1999 Spanish literary prize, the Premio Nacional de Narrative
, Delibes's assured historical novel takes place in the Spanish city of Valladolid, where Cipriano Salcedo is born on October 31, 1517, the same day Martin Luther nails...
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Miguel Delibes, Author, Agnes Moncy, Translator University of Georgia Press $40 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8203-1418-1
This accomplished novel by a distinguished Spanish writer purports to be the transcript of a week's conversations between psychiatrist Burgueno Lopez and Pacifico Perez, a peasant serving a prison sentence for murder. Guided by the doctor's gentle...
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Miguel Delibes, Author, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas, Translator Columbia University Press $24.5 (216p) ISBN 978-0-231-05461-4
This imaginative, macabre parable by a noted Spanish journalist and novelist first appeared in Spanish in 1969, six years before the death of Franco, and refers to the Spanish dictator. PW commented: ""Delibes's evocation of totalitarianism is...
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Miguel Delibes, Author, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas, Translator Columbia University Press $75.5 (259p) ISBN 978-0-231-06828-4
An intense psychological drama by one of modern Spain's premier writers, this novel is part of the Twentieth Century Continental Fiction Series. Mario Collado, a high school teacher in San Diego, Spain, dies in his sleep at the age of 49, leaving...
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Miguel Delibes, Author, Frances M. Lopez-Morillas, Translator Pantheon Books $22.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-394-57746-3
Lofty pronouncements on heroism and sometimes clumsy narrative ploys detract from this otherwise delightful coming-of-age novel. Set in the 1930s during the Spanish Civil War, Delibes's ( The Hedge ) plot chronicles the shifting fortunes of the De...
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