A shattering tale of oppression and resistance during Franco's dictatorship, by a beloved Spanish novelist In the arid province of Extremadura in 1960s Spain, life on a country estate carries on as it has for centuries: wealthy landowners live in luxury while workers are forced to endure lives of poverty and humiliation. Amid this exploitation and injustice live R gula, the estate's gatekeeper, and her husband, Paco, hunting attendant...