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The mine
Author: Armando López Salinas
Subject: social Classes - work
Barcelona: I Am Destined, 1977
One of the most significant works of the social novel of Spanish posguerra. Portrait trustworthy of the world of the work of the miners.
Private life
Author: Josep M. de Sagarra
Subject: Urban Area - classes social
Barcelona: Prow, 2000
, Possibly the big novel of Barcelona. Incomparable portrait of a period, of a space that he|she|it changes to the frantic rhythm that imposes the modernity and of a social class incapable of adapting oneself to it.
The raw material
Author: Francesc Serés
Subject: Work
Barcelona: Empúries, 2007
On Horseback among the stories and the journalistic reports, Serés, one of the more distinguished Catalan writers of his generation, offers us a thorough portrait of the world of the work in Catalonia.
The Tregua
Author: Mario Benedetti
Subject: Old Age
Madrid: Alianza, 1999
Written in the form of false dietary La tregua is a poetic approach to old age and the last will.
The misfortunes of the youngster Werther
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Subject: social Classes - youth
Barcelona: Editions 62, 1999
Possibly the most successful training novel ever written. The charisma of its protagonist reached far beyond the pages of the book.
Nosotras que lo quisimos todo
Author: Sonsoles Ónega
Subjects: Conciliation - Work - Uses of the time
Planet, 2015
Fiction based on the life of the author that it reflects like afterwards of made haber all duties the women continue fighting for a real equality in the work world that allows them to reconcile their personal and family life.
Dreams of the harem
Author: Fátima Mernissi
Subject: Gender - religion
Barcelona: Column [etc], 1999
Another example of the reality of women to Islam. A portrait of genre in an icy weather.
Twist Olive Tree
Author: Charles Dickens
Subject: social Classes - childhood - work
Barcelona: Prow, 1996
Hard portrait of childhood in 19th century London. A great classic.
Últimas afternoons con Teresa
Author: Juan Marsé
Subject: Social Classes - youth
Barcelona: Seix Barral, 1998
Great classic of Marsé, impossible love story and shock of social classes in the Barcelona of the Franco's regime.
A year and a half
Author: Sílvia Soler
Subjects: Family relationships - Care - Emigration - Vital stages
Columna Edicions, 2015
A year and a half in the life of a contemporary family explained from the seasons. Newly retired parents and four brothers, three of whom, for various reasons, have to go and look for their lives. The eldest is an architect and lives in Canada, the second, a cook, lives in Paris, the third, an oceanographer, lives in Mallorca, and the youngest, surfer, is the only one who lives with his parents.
El cuento de la criada
Author: Margaret Atwood
Subjects: Gender- Religion Salamandra, 2017
Dystopic fiction that focuses on the Republic of Gilead that sheltering in Islamic terrorism, politicians tocòcretes take power and abolish, among others, the rights of women. The body of Defred, the protagonist, only serves to procreate, as imposed by the Puritan dictatorship that dominates the country.
Caminando por las Hurdes ( Walking by Las Hurdes )
Author: Antonio Ferres
Subject: Rural areas - social classes
Madrid: Gadir, cop. 2006
Antonio Ferres visits Las Hurdes to leave us an indelible testimony of precariousness. This book, together with the Buñuel film, make up an indispensable diptych on a shaggy ground for chronic precariousness.