Las ratas

The rats is a novel built from a succession of anecdotes in which it recalls a disappeared town in Castilla. It focuses on the life of Nini and the Ratter, who developed their lives inside a cave, and lived at the cost of rat hunting in the town river. All the greatness of Castile through the quiet and sweet rebellion of a child. National Critics Award. Tragic and hard vision of a Castilian town, Las ratas is one of the books in which Delibes has best reflected the drama of that rural Castilla, of a Castilla that, nevertheless, oozes greatness in its very misery