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Blind Sunflowers (Paperback)

(author), (translator)
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Paperback 160 Pages
Published: 15/01/2016
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A captain in Franco's army renounces winning the war - on the very day of the victory; a young poet flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to grow up quickly, only to die within a few months; a prisoner in Polier's jail refuses to live a lie so that his executioner can be held accountable; and, a lustful deacon hides his desires behind the apostolic fascism that clamours for the purifying blood of the defeated.

Four subtly connected tales, narrated in the same spirit but with the individual styles of the different voices; these are stories from silent times, when people feared that others might discover what they knew. The line between the victorious and the defeated is blurred - whatever one's affiliation, nobody survives unscathed.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781906413118
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'Readers should be grateful to have this book, and English readers doubly grateful for Nick Caistor's impeccable translation' TLS 'The biggest publishing phenomena of recent years' - El Pais 'A first novel by an author I strongly recommend - not just as a critic, but as a reader without judgements or prejudices that I became from the first page'- La Vanguardia 'One of the most intense and original books to have been published in Spain in recent years' - ABC 'In his literary debut, Mendez displays a well-rounded and impeccable prose' - Heraldo de Aragon 'The text touches the soul deeply. Read it' - Diario de Cordoba

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