The Holy Innocents: A Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Synopsis

A shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco&’s dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist &“Passion in ordinary lives, sobriety and melancholy are the flavors of Delibes&’s writing . . . with a profound empathy for nature and the poor. . . . The Holy Innocents [is] a ferocious story.&”—The Guardian Named One of the Best 100 Spanish-Language Novels of the Twentieth Century (El Mundo) • Adapted into an Award-Winning Film by Mario Camus In the arid province of Extremadura in 1960s Spain, life on a country estate carries on as it has for centuries: wealthy landowners live in luxury while workers endure lives of poverty and humiliation. Amid this exploitation and injustice live Régula, an estate&’s gatekeeper, and her husband, Paco, the hunting attendant of the contemptuous Señorito Iván. Régula&’s brother Azarías toils as a farmhand, but he prefers chasing tawny owls at night, training his pet jackdaw, and caring for his young niece, who is bedridden. When Paco is injured, the nature-loving Azarías is forced to take over as hunting attendant. But after Señorito Iván commits an act of enormous cruelty following an unsuccessful hunt, it is only a matter of time before the simmering tensions between the aristocracy and the workers explode. A perennial Spanish classic, translated into twelve languages but never before into English, The Holy Innocents is a searing tale of human cruelty and alienation, in which resistance and liberation are not just necessary but possible.

Copyright:

2025

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ISBN-13:

9780300283112

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Date of Addition:

05/13/25

Copyrighted By:

Peter Bush.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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Categories:

Literature and Fiction

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Foreword by:

Colm Toibin

Translator:

Peter Bush