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This book deals with the Spanish Revolution. But told from another point of view than we're used to. We're starting in an all-female prison, getting to know Hortensia and the other imprisoned women. We're following them through the years of war, unrest and rebellion until the 50ties under Franco. The book is based on interviews with survivors and eye-witnesses, what gives the whole book another dimension. It's unsettling and real.

At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
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This one was a very quick read, a story that reads like a long poem. Our protagonist is heartbroken over a betrayal by his father, and at the same time growing into a man himself. Such a short novella, with all the impacts of life woven into it: heartbreak, laughter, coming of age, and in the end; making the right decisions for the ones we love.

“Whatever you do, there‘ll always be someone trying to impose limits on you. Don‘t go looking for them on your own.”

Library haul! The cover for the one on the right is what caught my attention, but the blurb sounds interesting too. The tagged caught my attention because of the title. I have an absentee father so I guess it resonated.

Northern Spain, towards the end of the civil war in January 1939. A prominent fascist figure is allowed to escape death by a soldier fighting for the Spanish Republic. Sixty years later, with democracy back in Spain, the narrator/author starts the quest to find the Republican soldier. A powerful novel about fascism vs democracy, Republican heritage, paso doble, Roberto Bolaño, and the importance of fighting losing wars. A must read.

La leí hace un mes y todavía sigo recordandola. Es conocida por su estilo reflexivo y filosófico, donde Unamuno aborda temas existenciales como la libertad, la muerte y la búsqueda del sentido de la vida. La obra se desarrolla en un ambiente de incertidumbre y confusión, simbolizado por la “niebla“. Él la define como “nivola“, un género que él inventó, me sorprendió encontrarlo como un personaje. Leí un cuento de G. García M. Parecido.

This is a haunted house novella translated from Spanish. This house has been inhabited by 4 generations of women some of who are witches. A granddaughter returns home after spending time in jail after being accused of kidnapping the boy she nannies. This is intergenerational trauma, domestic violence, class warfare. I kept thinking of that Mean Girl‘s quote-I don‘t hate you cause you‘re fat, you‘re fat because I hate you. But instead it‘s- 👇🏼

Um, okay, awesome, haunted house book, first paragraph, come through!!!!!

A masterpiece.
You MUST read this book.

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