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In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco's Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time that day-but is spared, this time by a lone soldier. The POW becomes a national hero and a member of Franco's first government, while the soldier is forgotten. Sixty years later, Cercas's novel peels back the layers...
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"En 1954, el joven psiquiatra Germán Velázquez vuelve a España para trabajar en el manicomio de mujeres de Ciempozuelos, al sur de Madrid. Tras salir al exilio en 1939, ha vivido quince años en Suiza, acogido por la familia del doctor Goldstein. En Ciempozuelos, Germán se reencuentra con Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, una parricida paranoica, inteligentísima, que le fascinó a los trece años, y conoce a una auxiliar de enfermería, María Castejón,...
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"Toulouse, summer of 1939. Carmen de Pedro, head of the decimated Spanish Communists in France, meets Jesús Monzón, a lesser official of the party who, unknown to her, harbors an ambitious plan. Some years later, in 1944, Monzón, now her partner, has organized the most disciplined group of the Resistance against the German occupation, is preparing the platform for the Spanish National Union, and has an army of men ready to invade Spain. Among them...
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A finales del siglo XVIII, la joven criolla Antonia de Salis vive con su prima Teresa en Rusia. Allí reciben la visita de un fascinante militar hispanoamericano, Francisco de Miranda, precursor de la independencia que agita a las colonias, que está de visita en Rusia para tejer una alianza con Potemkin. Antonia cae seducida ante un personaje tan idealista como ardiente, con fama de donjuán y magnífico contador de historias ante las damas. Tanto...
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