Linea de fuego / Line of Fire

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Linea de fuego / Line of Fire
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
10 November 2020
Pages
656
ISBN
9781644732915

Linea de fuego / Line of Fire

Arturo Perez-Reverte

Premio Nacional de la Critica 2020

Por primera vez, despues de treinta anos de exitosa carrera literaria, Arturo Perez-Reverte aborda de forma directa, en una esplendida novela, el episodio mas trascendental de la historia reciente de Espana: la Guerra Civil, para contar la memoria de nuestros padres y abuelos, que es nuestra propia historia.

En la noche del 24 al 25 de julio de 1938, durante la batalla del Ebro, 2.890 hombres y 14 mujeres de la XI Brigada Mixta del ejercito de la Republica cruzan el rio para establecer la cabeza de puente de Castellets del Segre, donde combatiran durante diez dias. Sin embargo, ni Castellets, ni la XI Brigada, ni las tropas que se le enfrentan en Linea de fuego existieron nunca. Las unidades militares, los lugares y los personajes que en esta novela aparecen son ficticios, aunque no lo sean los hechos ni los nombres reales en que se inspiran. Fue exactamente asi como padres, abuelos y familiares de numerosos espanoles de hoy combatieron en ambos bandos durante aquellos dias y aquellos tragicos anos.

La batalla del Ebro fue la mas dura y sangrienta de cuantas se han librado en nuestro suelo, y sobre ella hay abundante documentacion, partes de guerra y testimonios personales. Con todo eso, combinando rigor e invencion, el autor mas leido de la literatura espanola actual ha construido, no ya una novela sobre la Guerra Civil, sino una formidable novela de hombres y mujeres en cualquier guerra: un relato ecuanime y fascinante donde se recupera la memoria de nuestros padres y abuelos, que es tambien nuestra propia historia.

Con Linea de fuego, Arturo Perez-Reverte situa con sobrecogedor realismo al lector entre quienes, voluntarios o a la fuerza, estuvieron no en la retaguardia, sino peleando en ambos bandos en los frentes de batalla. En Espana se han escrito muchas y excelentes novelas sobre esa contienda desde distintas posiciones ideologicas, pero ninguna como esta. Nunca antes la Guerra Civil se habia contado asi.

Cubri varias de ellas como reportero, y hay un momento en que descubres que una guerra civil no es la lucha del bien contra el mal… Solo el horror enfrentado a otro horror. -Arturo Perez-Reverte

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

For the first time, after a successful thirty-year literary career, Arturo Perez-Reverte directly addresses, in a splendid novel, the most momentous episode in the recent history of Spain, the Civil War, to recount the memory our parents and grandparents, which is our own story.

On the night of July 24-25, 1938, during the Battle of the Ebro, 2,890 men and 14 women from the 11th Mixed Brigade of the Republic Army crossed the river to establish the bridgehead of Castellets del Segre, where they would fight for ten days. However, neither Castellets, nor the 11th Brigade, nor the troops facing them in Line of Fire ever existed. The military units, places, and characters that appear in this novel are fictitious, although the facts and the real names that inspire them are not. It was exactly like this that parents, grandparents, and relatives of many Spaniards on both sides fought during those tragic days and years.

The battle of the Ebro was the harshest and bloodiest of those that have been fought on our soil, and there is abundant documentation, war reports, and personal testimonies. Using that, combining rigor and research, the most widely read author in contemporary Spanish literature has constructed, not only a novel about the Civil War, but a formidable novel about men and women in any war: a fair and fascinating story where he recovers the memory of our parents and grandparents, which is also our own history.

With Line of Fire, Arturo Perez-Reverte places the reader, with overwhelming realism, among those who, voluntarily or by force, were not on the sidelines, but were fighting on both sides on the battle front. In Spain, many excellent novels have been written about this conflict from different ideological angles, but none like this. Never before had the Civil War been told in this way.

I covered several of them as a reporter, and there comes a time when you discover that a civil war is not the fight of good against evil… Only horror confronting another horror. -Arturo Perez-Reverte

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