El monarca de las sombras

Author: Javier Cercas
- Fiction
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
- ISBN: 9788439732570
- Release Date: 05-05-2005

Synopsis

El monarca de las sombras 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, al estallar la guerra civil, se incorporó al ejército de Franco; dos años después murió combatiendo 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.

Over fifteen years after publishing Soldados de Salamina / Soldiers of Salamis, Javier Cercas returns once again to the Spanish Civil War, now with a much more intimate and personal novel that dives deep into his family’s darkest past. No family is ever able to escape its past. This is the novel that Cercas has been preparing to write since he decided to be a writer, or even before then.

El monarca de las sombras / The Monarch of Shadows is about the search for an almost forgotten young man who fought for justice and died on the wrong side of history. His name was Manuel Mena and he joined Franco’s army when the Civil War broke in 1936. He died two years later in the battle of Ebro, and for decades he was the family hero; and was also Javier Cercas’ great-uncle.

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