Description
Set in post–World War I Galicia, this novel follows Madruga, an ambitious young man navigating a poor rural world where emigration promises escape and reinvention. Through a strictly chronological frame that moves toward Eulália’s death and funeral, the narrative opens into memory—layering the present with the lived textures of love, loss, and longing. As Madruga’s choices ripple outward, the book explores how dreams are made, traded, and broken under the pressure of history, class, and displacement. With Nélida Piñon’s lyrical, human-centered storytelling, the novel turns personal recollection into a broader meditation on identity and the republic we build inside our minds.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Texas Press
Published Jan 1, 1991
669 pages
ISBN: 9780292770508
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
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