Cry, Mother Spain (Paperback)

Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit). Montse lives in a small village, high in the hills, where few people can read or write and fewer still ever leave. If everything goes according to her mother's plan, Montse will never leave either. She will become a good, humble maid for the local landowners, muchisimas gracias, with every Sunday off to dance the jota in the church square. But Montse's world is changing. Her brother Jose has just returned from Lerida with a red and black scarf and a new, dangerous vocabulary and his words are beginning to open up new realms to his little sister. She might not understand half of what he says, but how can anyone become a maid in the Burgos family when their head is ringing with shouts of Revolucion, Comunidad and Libertad? The war, it seems, has arrived in the nick of time.

General

Imprint:	MacLehose Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2014
Authors:	Lydie Salvayre
Translators:	Ben Faccini
Dimensions:	201 x 146 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-85705-452-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-85705-452-X
Barcode:	9780857054524

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