The Spanish Bookstage talks about tha latest book by Javier Cercas "The Monarch of the Shadows". “Javier Cercas’ new novel continues his exploration of the Spanish Civil War; familiar territory for the writer: 16 years ago he published Soldiers of Salamina, the first time he addressed the subject and still his most successful publication.
He later examined the legacy of the war through the 1981 coup d’etat in Anatomía de un instante (Anatomy of a Moment). Now, with El monarca de las sombras (The Monarch of the Shadows, Literatura Random House), he returns to the madness that gripped Spain between 1936 and 1939, drawing on his family history and especially the legend of one of his mother’s uncles, Manuel Mena, a second lieutenant in a platoon of Ifni marksmen, an assault unit.”
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