Author(s): Dulce Chacon
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 264
Publisher: DEBOLSILLO
Language: Spanish
Date Published: 2017-04-01
Dimensions: 127 x 191 x 20mm
Publication City/Country: Spain
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Una novela apasionante sobre el amor, el odio, la venganza y las diferencias entre clases sociales, ambientada en los duros anos de la posguerra espanola y ganadora del Premio Azorin. Un joven pastor es acusado de cometer un triple asesinato en el cortijo extremeno donde sus familiares han trabajado como sirvientes durante generaciones. Su unica defensa sera el testimonio sin fisuras de su anciano abuelo, que revelara una brutal historia de intriga, sometimiento, erotismo y venganza, de la que amos y criados son a la vez testigos y protagonistas. En una epoca en que la Guerra Civil abrio una brecha insalvable entre vencedores y vencidos, el relato de un viejo alfarero que no se rinde ante la injusticia abrira heridas aun sin cicatrizar y cuestionara los ferreos cimientos morales de la aristocracia rural espanola. Resena:
Una novela de amores y odios, escrita con crueldad, ternura y poesia.
Angel Basanta, El Cultural
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A young shepherd is accused of committing a triple homicide in the farmstead in Extremadura where his family has worked as servants for generations. His only defense is the unshakeable testimony of his elderly grandfather, who reveals a brutal story of intrigue, subjugation, eroticism, and vengeance, in which masters and servants are both witnesses and protagonists. In a time in which the Spanish Civil War shredded the existence of winners and losers, the tale of an old potter who does not give up in the face of injustice will open wounds that have yet to heal and will question the moral foundations of the rural Spanish aristocracy. Awarded with the Azorin Novel Prize in 2000, Clay Skies is a thrilling work, written with the intelligence of one who dominates the difficult art of engrossing the reader in the story. An essential novel for understanding the past of a battered country, which had to rescue itself however it could from its own demons.