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 laun...
A shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco’s dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist “Passion in ordinary lives, sobriety and melancholy are the flavors of Delibes’s writing . . . with a profound empathy ...