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| Title | : | Soldiers of Salamis |
| Author | : | Javier Cercas |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 213 pages |
| ISBN | : | 1582344728 |
In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco s Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time that day but is spared, this time by a lone Republican soldier The writer becomes a national hero and a member of Franco s first gove In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco s Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escapes into the forest When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time that day but is spared, this time by a lone Republican soldier The writer becomes a national hero and a member of Franco s first government, while the soldier is forgotten Sixty years later, Cercas s novel peels back the layers of truth and propaganda in order to discover who the real hero was Winner of the Independent Prize in Foreign Fiction, Soldiers of Salamis is a wholly original work of fiction by a modern master
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Javier Cercas Mena Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962 es un escritor y traductor espa ol.Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro a os, en 1966 su familia se traslad a Tarragona, y all estudi con los jesuitas Es primo carnal del pol tico Alejandro Cercas A los quince a os la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclin para siempre a la escritura En 1985 se licenci en Filolog a Javier Cercas Mena Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962 es un escritor y traductor espa ol.Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro a os, en 1966 su familia se traslad a Tarragona, y all estudi con los jesuitas Es primo carnal del pol tico Alejandro Cercas A los quince a os la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclin para siempre a la escritura En 1985 se licenci en Filolog a Hisp nica en la Universidad Aut noma de Barcelona y m s tarde se doctor Trabaj durante dos a os en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana mientras estaba all se public su primera novela, El m vil, y compuso su segunda novela desde 1989 es profesor de literatura espa ola en la Universidad de Girona Est casado y tiene un hijo Se transform en un autor de masas con su tercera novela, Soldados de Salamina 2001 , que fue descubierta por Mario Vargas Llosa en un famoso art culo y mereci los elogios de John Maxwell Coetzee y Susan Sontag Es colaborador habitual de la edici n catalana y del suplemento dominical del diario El Pa s.Su obra ha sido traducida a m s de veinte lenguas Por su parte l mismo ha traducido a autores catalanes contempor neos y a H G Wells 
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In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, a writer and founding member of Franco s Fascist Party is about to be shot, and yet miraculously escape
213 pagesJavier Cercas
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