Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
La Barraca
"La Barraca" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez is a novel published in 1898. Set in nineteenth-century Valencia, it follows Batiste and his family as they arrive to cultivate an abandoned farm that the community has sworn no one should work. Their desperate decision triggers relentless hostility from neighboring villagers who view them as traitors to the collective. As tensions escalate through violence and tragedy, the family faces an impossible choice between survival and belonging in a community determined to drive them out.