A master of contemporary Galician fiction, the author of Memorias dun neon labrego (Memories of a Peasant Boy) now offers us his new novel, Waiting for the Milkcart. It is a monologue without pauses, in which he tells the story of a peasant boy as he waits to begin the journey that will take him from his village to Buenos Aires.
In this chronicle of a lost world, Neira Vilas evokes the life of a boy of nineteen who leaves for Latin America in the 1950s, drawn by the people he will find there and pushed by the scarcity at home. The novel tells of a vanished world, that of the village, with all its trappings, its customs and ways of speaking.