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Uncertain Glory (Paperback)
Joan Sales; Translated by Peter Bush
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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
quiet section of the line. But even on 'dead' fronts the guns do
not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's
fate in the hands of Juli Soleras, old friend and traitor of easy
conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with
himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the civil war, distilled his
experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth and
crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with
the work of Dostoevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown
counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom
the Bell Tolls.
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