The Heretic

The Heretic
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2007-03-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1468304801

A young man’s fate is tied to the Protestant Reformation—and the violent upheaval that follows—in this prize-winning novel of sixteenth-century Spain. On October 31st, 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses to a church door and launches the movement that will divide the Roman Catholic Church. On that same day, a child is born in the Spanish city of Valladolid. The young Cipriano Salcedo's fate is marked by the political and religious upheaval taking root across Europe. Cipriano grows up to become a prosperous merchant and joins the Reformation movement, which is secretly advancing on the Iberian Peninsula, the historical bastion of the Catholic church. But before long, the Spanish Inquisition will drive the Reformers to put their lives at stake. Through Cipriano’s story, Delibes paints a masterful portrait of the time of Spain's Charles V and recreates the social and intellectual atmosphere of Europe at one of history's most pivotal moments. Winner of Spain’s Premio Nacional de Narrativa

The Hedge

The Hedge
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780231054614

Jacinto, an office clerk, is sent to a company retreat after he collapses from exhaustion and gradually becomes cut off from the outside world.

Five Hours with Mario

Five Hours with Mario
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780231068284

The novel is the monologue of a woman who holds a wake for her late husband while she recounts the memories of him.

El Camino by Miguel Delibes

El Camino by Miguel Delibes
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN:

Miguel Delibes' inaugural address to the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975 portrayed "El camino" (1950) as a distant precursor of the emergent Green movement. This text comprises an introductory essay discussing Green issues, attitudes towards the Spanish peasantry under Franco, and the function of the novel's subtly orchestrated comedy.

The Stuff of Heroes

The Stuff of Heroes
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War--a family saga that resonates far beyond the borders of Spain.

The Wars of Our Ancestors

The Wars of Our Ancestors
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780820314181

In a series of interviews with the prison psychiatrist, Pacifico Perez, a Spanish peasant charged with murder, describes his world and the circumstances that led to his imprisonment

Rewilding

Rewilding
Author: Nathalie Pettorelli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108472672

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Smoke on the Ground

Smoke on the Ground
Author: Miguel Delibes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1972
Genre: Spain
ISBN:

"This opens on a landscape so empty of familiar reference points and a culture so reduced and stylized that it might well be mistaken for Delibes' fantasy instead of the provincial Spain we've come to know through so many more sentimental novels. But it is just this presentation -- the author's unromantic way of proferring facts while withholding their context -- which makes something special of a story that could not have survived a heavier touch. It revolves around a boy named Nini who lives in a cave with his uncle/father, an opaque dawn-man called "the Ratter." They exist by hunting rats for village tables; but Nini also acts as a kind of resident oracle, having absorbed an otherwise lost tradition of farmer lore from an old man who is scorned by the others. These others, and especially the few villagers of "substance," have vested their hopes in the remote world of education, engineering, civil government, etc.; and two in particular, Justito the Mayor and an imperious bourgeoise known as "the Eleventh Commandment," devote their powers to reforming Nini and the Ratter. This despite mounting evidence that modernization is a dangerous concept in the crumbling local economy. Still, the vision is darkly equivocal and Nini, helplessly alone in his comprehension, is simply the nerve which registers a historical truism as the experience of doom. His story takes place in the hiatus between traditions which Delibes realizes via a spare, tensile, tragicomic poetry; it is essentially a modest work unlikely to claim all the attention it deserves."--Kirkus

The Taker, and Other Stories

The Taker, and Other Stories
Author: Rubem Fonseca
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193482402X

The first collection of Fonseca's short stories to appear in English, ranging across his oeuvre, exploring the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro. Fonseca's Rio is a city at war, where vast disparities, in wealth, social standing and prestige are untenable. Rich and poor live in an uneasy equilibrium, where only overwhelming force can maintain order and violence and deception are the essential tools of survival. From the tale of the businessman who rans over pedestrians to let off steam to a serial killer being pushed to kill more by his lover, this collection is a true gem.

WOUNDED EARTH

WOUNDED EARTH
Author: MIGUEL. DELIBES DE CASTRO DELIBES (MIGUEL.)
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9781874739906