Uncertain Glory
$36.28
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2016
Summary
SPAIN, 1937.
Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluis Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo - a beautiful widow with a shadowy past - puts a high price on her affections.
In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluis’ son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city’s morale, she leaves to winter with Lluis’ brigade on a q…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857051530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857051539 |
| Author: | Joan Sales, Peter Bush |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 316g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 29mm |
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Magnificent … Peter Bush and MacLehose Press have done a great service in reviving this Catalan classic - Guardian
Wonderfully readable … Uncertain Glory is a major novel that expresses the disillusion of a generation who fought a just war against fascism, but lost their idealism and youth - Literary ReviewA masterwork that will seduce anew with its passion, humour, pathos and the all too-human spats of anger - Irish TimesIn this bravura novel of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, Catalan author Joan Sales evokes its messy, devastating lived reality, but even more memorably the intense feeling of being alive which war paradoxically produces… at the novel’s core is a group of young ‘voices’, brilliantly rendered, as they rage to liveAbout The Author
Joan Sales
Joan Sales (1912-1983) was a Catalan writer, translator and publisher. He obtained a Law degree in 1932 and was a member of regional anarchist and communist groups. In the Civil War he fought on the Madrid and Aragonese fronts before going into exile in France in 1939. He moved to Mexico in 1942, returning to Catalonia in 1948, after which he began working as a publisher. Uncertain Glory, his crucial testament, was first published in 1956, though a combination of censorship and Sales’ tendency towards revision meant that a definitive edition was not available until many years later.
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