Author:
Montero, Miguel.
Imprint:[United States] : Lulu Publishers, 2010.
Description225 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Prologue -- Historic note -- The Larrumbe school -- Mass at the Augustines -- The shooting begins -- Brother Ruperto -- Facets of life -- Fear -- Ali Baba's cave -- Enrique's execution -- Slaughter -- Death threats -- Lentils and potted cat -- Sicknesses -- The raven -- The raven's pistol -- El responsable -- The explosion -- Uncle Jesus's wounds -- The catapult -- Mystery and cod liver oil -- At death's door -- The dead man -- Uncle Pepe -- Aladdin's lamp -- The committee -- Maximo -- Guernica -- Memories -- Pacho's death -- Malaga wine and mojicones -- The art of queing -- The radio -- The doll's house -- La carcel modelo -- Typhus and smallpox -- The bullet hole -- Jail and scabies -- Tio Morales -- Arsenic -- Boils galore -- Pepe's madness -- El brasero -- Pepe's journey -- Stages of tragedy -- The white wolf -- Adversity -- The last farewell -- Septicaemia -- Bullets of death -- Desolation -- Sadness -- Death -- One last week -- The bitter end.
Note:The Spanish civil war exploded when the core of the Spanish character, forged over centuries, was assailed by the actions of new but misguided ideas in conflict with the Spanish spirit. Manolo is a living ghost of childhood lost, brought about by the horror of the war, that left the Country scarred for many decades. Wounds, which will never quite heal. It is through his eyes, the eyes of a ten-year-old child, that the consequences of such tragic conflict are viewed. Together with his friends, two boys and a girl of the same age, he transports us to the days, back in history, when death was around the corner and was accepted as the norm; when threats to innocent lives easily became a quick step to execution for the most trivial reasons; when food was scarce to the point of starvation. And amidst this turmoil Manolo survived as a refugee of adversity.
