Almudena Grandes Says Failure of Her Characters Reflects Failure of a Nation

The Spanish author told EFE that the bleak failure of the characters in her books reflects the failure of an entire nation.

Her new work “Los Pacientes del Doctor Garcia” (The Patients of Dr. Garcia) is again about those who resisted the dictatorship of Francisco Franco in a country that was “a victim of the Cold War.”

In what is the fourth installment of the series “Episodios de una Guerra Interminable” (Episodes of an Endless War), presented at Mexico’s International Book Fair (FIL) in Guadalajara, the story penetrates the network of Nazi criminals from Germany who managed to escape to Latin America through Spain.

READ MORE at Latin American Herald Tribune.

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