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portada El Monarca de las Sombras (in Spanish)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2020
Language
Spanish
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.1 x 13.0 x 2.5 cm
Weight
0.28 kg.
ISBN13
9780593081174

El Monarca de las Sombras (in Spanish)

Javier Cercas (Author) · Vintage Espanol · Paperback

El Monarca de las Sombras (in Spanish) - Javier Cercas

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Synopsis "El Monarca de las Sombras (in Spanish)"

Más de quince años después de la publicación de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la guerra civil española con una novela más íntima y personal, que indaga en el pasado más incómodo de su familia. Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se había estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista. O desde antes. En ella se narra la búsqueda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi anónimo que peleó por una causa injusta y murió en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena, y en 1936 se incorporó al ejército de Franco; murió en la batalla del Ebro, y durante décadas se convirtió en el héroe oficial de su familia. Era tío abuelo de Javier Cercas, quien siempre se negó a indagar en su historia, hasta que se sintió obligado a hacerlo. El resultado es una novela absorbente, pletórica de acción, de humor y de emoción, que nos enfrenta a los temas esenciales de la narrativa de Cercas: la naturaleza radiante y poliédrica del heroísmo, la terca pervivencia de los muertos o la carga del pasado más incómodo. Exploración 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 abrió años atrás 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.
Javier Cercas
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Javier Cercas was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, in 1962. His work, translated into more than thirty languages, consists of the following novels: El móvil, El inquilino, El vientre de la ballena, Soldados de Salamina, La velocidad de la luz, Anatomía de un instante, Las leyes de la frontera, El impostor and El monarca de las sombras, almost all recognized with prestigious national and international awards. He has also published miscellaneous books –Una buena temporada, Relatos reales, La verdad de Agamenón and Formas de ocultarse– and essays –La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez and El punto ciego.
He has also received several awards for essays and journalism, and various recognitions for his career, such as the Prix Ulysse in France, or the Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, the Premio Friuladria, the Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano, or the Premio Sicilia, all in Italy.
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