Young Manuel arrives in Madrid, where his mother works in a shabby boarding house, and slides from job to job through the city’s underworld of rag-pickers, gamblers, petty thieves and the homeless. The first novel of Baroja’s trilogy The Struggle for Life is a raw, episodic picture of urban poverty at the turn of the century.
A landmark of Spanish realism, admired by Hemingway, for readers drawn to the lower depths of the great European cities. Download the free EPUB.