Cry, Mother Spain

@2@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 @18@fascista@19@ before. In any case, the villagers say @18@facha @19@(the @18@ch@19@ is a real Spanish @18@ch@19@, by the way, with a real spit).@3@@2@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, @18@muchísimas gracias@19@, with every Sunday off to dance the @18@jota @19@in the church square.@3@@2@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 @18@Revolucion@19@, @18@Comunidad @19@and @18@Libertad@19@?@3@@2@The war, it seems, has arrived in the nick of time.@3@

Product details

• Authors: Lydie Salvayre, SALVAYRE LYDIE
• Assisted by: Ben Faccini (Translation), Faccini Ben (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780857054524
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-452-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 201 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, Spain, Fiction in translation, TRAVEL / Europe / Spain & Portugal, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal, Spanish Civil War