"La Barraca," by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Edited by Jeffrey Oxford
The early 20th-century naturalist author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez first achieved great fame throughout Europe with his novel La Barraca. Filled with interesting and historical details of 19th-century rural Spanish life and the hardships of tenant farming according to Ibáñez, La Barraca paints a picture of people bullied and trapped by their own ignorance in a situation where water-rights management was as important as it is today.
ISBN 978-1-58977-007-2 (PB) $20