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El monarca de las sombras / Lord of All the Dead
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El monarca de las sombras / Lord of All the Dead

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Mas de quince anos despues de la publicacion de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la guerra civil espanola con una novela mas intima y personal, que indaga en el pasado mas incomodo de su familia.

Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se habia estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista. O desde antes.

En ella se narra la busqueda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi anonimo que peleo por una causa injusta y murio en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena, y en 1936 se incorporo al ejercito de Franco; murio en la batalla del Ebro, y durante decadas se convirtio en el heroe oficial de su familia. Era tio abuelo de Javier Cercas, quien siempre se nego a indagar en su historia, hasta que se sintio obligado a hacerlo. El resultado es una novela absorbente, pletorica de accion, de humor y de emocion, que nos enfrenta a los temas esenciales de la narrativa de Cercas: la naturaleza radiante y poliedrica del heroismo, la terca pervivencia de los muertos o la carga del pasado mas incomodo. Exploracion local y universal, personal y colectiva, belicosamente antibelicista, El monarca de las sombras da una vuelta de tuerca a la pregunta sobre la herencia de la guerra que Cercas abrio anos atras con Soldados de Salamina.

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From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war–his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write.

Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War–while fighting for Franco’s army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? Through visits back to his parents’ village in southern Spain, interviews with survivors, and research into the murkiest corners of the war, the author pieces together the life of this enigmatic figure and of an entire generation. This sui generis work combines intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, war stories, and road trips, finally becoming a transcendent portrait of a country’s indelible scars–a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Country
United States
Date
14 January 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9780593081174

Mas de quince anos despues de la publicacion de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la guerra civil espanola con una novela mas intima y personal, que indaga en el pasado mas incomodo de su familia.

Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se habia estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista. O desde antes.

En ella se narra la busqueda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi anonimo que peleo por una causa injusta y murio en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena, y en 1936 se incorporo al ejercito de Franco; murio en la batalla del Ebro, y durante decadas se convirtio en el heroe oficial de su familia. Era tio abuelo de Javier Cercas, quien siempre se nego a indagar en su historia, hasta que se sintio obligado a hacerlo. El resultado es una novela absorbente, pletorica de accion, de humor y de emocion, que nos enfrenta a los temas esenciales de la narrativa de Cercas: la naturaleza radiante y poliedrica del heroismo, la terca pervivencia de los muertos o la carga del pasado mas incomodo. Exploracion local y universal, personal y colectiva, belicosamente antibelicista, El monarca de las sombras da una vuelta de tuerca a la pregunta sobre la herencia de la guerra que Cercas abrio anos atras con Soldados de Salamina.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war–his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write.

Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War–while fighting for Franco’s army. Who was this young man? A fascist hero whose memory is an embarrassment or a committed idealist who happened to fall on the wrong side of history? Is it possible to be a moral person defending an immoral cause? Through visits back to his parents’ village in southern Spain, interviews with survivors, and research into the murkiest corners of the war, the author pieces together the life of this enigmatic figure and of an entire generation. This sui generis work combines intimate family history, investigative scholarship, personal confession, war stories, and road trips, finally becoming a transcendent portrait of a country’s indelible scars–a book about heroism, death, the persistence of the past, and the meaning of an individual life against the tapestry of history.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers
Country
United States
Date
14 January 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9780593081174