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Los Ingratos. Premio Primavera de Novela 2021 / The Ingrates. Primavera Novel Prize 2021
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9786073944762
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: Spanish
Una emocionante crónica familiar y sentimental. El retrato de un paÃs que miraba al futuro y se olvidó de dar las gracias a la generación que lo hizo posible.
Nos rezaban que cuatro esquinitas tenÃa mi cama y que cuatro angelitos nos la guardaban, pero mi cama por lo menos tenÃa cinco. Y uno de ellos era una señora de campo que pinchaba cuando te daba un beso .
1975. A un pueblo de esa España que empieza a vaciarse llega la nueva maestra con sus hijos. El más pequeño es David. La vida del niño consiste en ir a la era, desollarse las rodillas, asomarse a un pozo sin brocal y viajar cerrando los ojos en el ultramarinos.
Hasta que llega una cuidadora a casa y sus vidas cambiarán para siempre. De Emérita, David aprenderá todo lo que hay que saber sobre las cicatrices del cuerpo y las heridas del alma. Gracias al chico, ella recuperará algo que creyó haber perdido hace mucho.
Los ingratos es una emocionante novela sobre una generación que vivió en aquella España donde se viajaba sin cinturones de seguridad en un Simca y la comida no se tiraba porque no hacÃa tanto que se habÃa pasado hambre. Un homenaje, entre la ternura y la culpa, a quienes nos acompañaron hasta aquà sin pedir nada a cambio.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An emotionally powerful family chronicle. A portrait of a country that looked to the future and forgot to thank the generation that made it possible.
They used to pray that my bed had four little corners and that four little angels watched over it, but my bed had at least five. And one of them was a country woman who prickled when she kissed you.
1975. In a village in that Spain that is beginning to empty out, a new schoolteacher arrives with her children. The youngest is David. The boy's life revolves around playing in the fields, scraping his knees, peering into an unfenced well, and traveling with his eyes closed in the local grocery store.
Until a caregiver arrives at their home and their lives change forever. From Emérita, David will learn everything there is to know about the scars of the body and the wounds of the soul. Thanks to the boy, she will recover something she thought she had lost long ago.
Los ingratos is a moving novel about a generation that lived in a Spain where people rode without seat belts in a Simca and food was never thrown away because hunger was still a recent memory. A tribute, balanced between tenderness and guilt, to those who brought us this far without asking for anything in return.
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