Nijar Fields
(Juan Goytisolo)
A trip diary through the province of Almería. A pretty unkonwn area of Spain tough it has been the star of the italian western style movies. It is a desertic and sad region described in this little book by Juan Goytisolo. People is sad and poor because you cannot grow anything but pitas in this region as it does not rain. Or slightly as the tale symbolicly ends with a heavy shower. The story teller that travels from town to town is seen with respect and curiosity. He is catalan and then it is as they recongnized some kind of authority. Many Almerian people went to work to Barcelona. The people described is very simple, they have the life of a humble person. Many of them are touching people. Over the end, the writer meets Mr. Ambrosio who is running around. He appears as a figure of a funder that visits his town. In this part, the tone is more dramatic. The inhabitants are waiting for someone to take their poverty away. It is a book wirtten in the seventies. By that time,there was not much tourism in the area, though there may not be some now.Anyway, the reader enters this world and cames out likes the teller shouting "When Almeria was Almeria, Granada was its country house".
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