Summary of Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
“Memoirs of a Peasant Boy” is a short novella recounting the childhood memories of Balbino, a poor boy from the remote village of Gres in Galicia, north-western Spain. The story portrays his daily life as he struggles with poverty, injustice, and the constraints imposed by Catholicism and conservatism in Galician society in the 1940s, after the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Reasons to read Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
First published in Argentina, “Memoirs of a Peasant Boy” is the most widely read work of Galician-language fiction. Xosé Neira Vilas was a renowned Spanish writer in the Galician language who received several literary awards, including the Premio da Crítica Galicia.
Setting: Gres, Galicia (Spain)
Original title: Memorias dun neno labrego
Year of publication: 1961
Nr of pages: 118
