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Encuadernación: Rústica.Colección: Hispánica.Un joven pastor es acusado de cometer un triple asesinato en el cortijo extremeño donde sus familiares han trabajado como sirvientes durante generaciones. Su única defensa será el testimonio sin fisuras de su anciano abuelo, que revelará una brutal historia de intriga, sometimiento, erotismo y venganza, de la que amos y criados son a la vez testigos y protagonistas.En una época en que la Guerra Civil hizo jirones la existencia de vencedores y vencidos, el relato de un viejo alfarero que no se rinde a la injusticia abrirá heridas aún sin cicatrizar y cuestionará los regios cimientos morales de la aristocracia rural española.Galardonada con el Premio Azorín de novela en 2000, Cielos de barro es una obra apasionante, escrita con la inteligencia propia de quien domina el difícil arte de atrapar con una historia. Una novela imprescindible para comprender el pasado de un país maltrecho, que hubo de rescatarse como pudo de sus propios

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Dulce Chacón's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out" Le MondeIt is 1939. In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of women have been incarcerated. Their crime is to have supported or fought on the Republican side in Spain's cruel and devastating Civil War. Chief among them are Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe - a man still at large and fighting against Franco's dictatorship - and who lives with the knowledge that she will be shot after she gives birth; sixteen-year-old Elvira, who tried to leave Spain with her mother, but was arrested by the Falangists while she was boarding their ship; Tomasa, whose husband, four sons and daughter-in-law were thrown off a bridge; and Pepita, Hortensia's sister, who from outside the prison acts as messenger between her and her husband.Dulce Chacón's deeply moving novel is based on the actual testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. A bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year', The Sleeping Voice is remarkable for its combination of dramatic intensity and historical authenticity.

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