The Ingrates
Publishing date:7 april 2021
Synopsis:
A warm and luminous novel about the power
of love that depicts a time and a country
It’s 1975 when Mercedes, a young teacher, moves with her three
little children to a village in the Spanish interior. Her husband
has to stay in Madrid to work, and Mercedes hires Miss Emérita,
a childless widow, to help her around the house and with the
children.
David, the youngest, establishes a precious and unique
friendship with Emérita that will mark both of them for life.
She will teach him everything she knows—harsh but useful
lessons about life in the country—while David, with a child’s
gentleness, will make her smile; and thanks to him, Emérita will
get back something she thought she had lost forever, and will
also learn how to read.
Highlights
Highlights The Ingrates
A tale about the loss of innocence and the passage into adulthood, and an homage to those—in some ways innocent, in some guilty—to those who brought us to where we are without asking for anything in return.
Winner of the Primavera Prize 2021
A warm and luminous novel about the power of love that depicts a time and a country
Technical Data
| Technical data | Publish date: 7 april 2021 ISBN: 978-84-670-6086-7 Pages: 288 Imprint: Espasa |
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| Reviews | A tender and nostalgic novel, a deeply felt family chronicle that describes the changes that took place in Spanish society in the final decades of the twentieth century. |
