"To Bury the Dead" is an investigation of a brutal political murder and fascinating literary feud hidden by the dust of the Spanish Civil War. At the end of 1936, five months after Franco and his allies staged their coup against the Republican government of Spain, Jose Robles was arrested by undercover police during the increasingly bitter Civil War. Held under suspicion of treason under false charges, his subsequent detention and eventual execution were kept secret by the government. A close friend of Robles, the writer John Dos Passos, vowed to uncover the truth but was met only with a conspiracy of silence.Ignacio Martinez de Pison picks up the trail where Dos Passos left off, obsessed with discovering the true story. He traces the two men's long friendship, establishes their Republican credentials and tries to discover how and why Robles was killed, an answer that might lead to an explanation of why two of the most famous American writers of the time, John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, both committed anti-fascists, went from being close friends to irreconcilable enemies. A story about real people whose lives were caught up in and shattered by political events, "To Bury the Dead" exposes power struggles, ideological feuds and deadly political rivalries.

La nostalgia de las excursiones dominicales, la desolacion por la muerte de un amigo, el trastorno de los sentidos al viajar por primera vez lejos de casa, el vertigo que provoca el riesgo de una travesura, la ebriedad de los primeros dias de vacaciones... Las emocionantes estampas que componen El vaso de plata rescatan de la memoria distintos momentos de la adolescencia de su protagonista, relatos conmovedores sobre la formacion moral, sobre aquel "viaje a la singularidad que constituye toda adolescencia," por decirlo en palabras de Martinez de Pison. La quietud y permanencia que destilan sus paginas, la sensacion de que nos cuentan cosas "que han pasado y que estan destinadas a seguir pasando" son uno de los mayores logros de un libro que ha retratado la adolescencia como pocos en nuestra reciente literatura. Este libro, el primero de narrativa que publico su autor y por el que obtuvo el premio Ciudad de Barcelona y el Critica Serra d'Or de 1992, esta destinado a acompanar nuestro propio aprendizaje del dolor y del amor y a perdurar en la memoria lectora. Un libro que nos ensena, como diria su autor, que "la vida es un pasar de una adolescencia a otra."