Books about Spain

Good read: Jesus Carrasco - La tierra que pisamos

(The novel takes place in Extremadura, Spain, at the beginning of the 20th century, where one day the life paths of a representative of the Northern Empire, the wealthy Eva Holman, and a representative of the oppressed, expropriated, mysterious Leo intertwine. Eva, the wife of the once mighty, now demented military commander Iosif, finds the tortured, dumb hiding Lev in the garden of her estate. A mad but harmless newcomer takes pity on the woman, brings him food and offers him shelter in the garden, a kind of alliance of two extremely unhappy human beings emerges between them. In the narration of the life stories of the main protagonists, where the events are set in short, impressive chapters, we get to know the cruelty of the invaders, who ruthlessly exploit the natural resources of the landscape and the labor force of the subjugated indigenous people. The author received the European Union Prize for Literature for a shocking, unique literary depiction of the derailed essence of our civilization, which has always been based on violence and slavery.)