Name: Soldiers of Salamis
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Author: Javier Cercas
ISBN: 9780857059192

Type

Physical Book

Author

Javier Cercas

Publisher

Maclehose Press

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780857059192

Soldiers of Salamis

Javier Cercas (Author) · Maclehose Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Soldiers of Salamis "

The International Bestseller of the Spanish Civil War - Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. The branches move and he finds himself looking into the eyes of a militiaman, and faces death for the second time that day. But the unknown soldier simply turns and walks away. Sanchez Mazas becomes a national hero and the soldier disappears into history. As Cercas sifts the evidence to establish what happened, he realises that the true hero may not be Sanchez Mazas at all, but the soldier who chose not to shoot him. Who was he? Why did he spare him? And might he still be alive?

Javier Cercas

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Javier Cercas was born in Ibahernando, Cáceres, in 1962. His work, translated into more than thirty languages, consists of the following novels: El móvil, El inquilino, El vientre de la ballena, Soldados de Salamina, La velocidad de la luz, Anatomía de un instante, Las leyes de la frontera, El impostor and El monarca de las sombras, almost all recognized with prestigious national and international awards. He has also published miscellaneous books –Una buena temporada, Relatos reales, La verdad de Agamenón and Formas de ocultarse– and essays –La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez and El punto ciego.
He has also received several awards for essays and journalism, and various recognitions for his career, such as the Prix Ulysse in France, or the Premio Internazionale del Salone del Libro di Torino, the Premio Friuladria, the Premio Internazionale Città di Vigevano, or the Premio Sicilia, all in Italy.

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