Here is a beautiful novel that backdrop the Spanish war. The author in a very fluid style history tells us, though here it is fiction, which occurred during those terrible years that marked the takeover by Franco. We follow with passion the divergent paths of the members of a family who lived in Granada happy in this beautiful city between flamenco and bullfights. This art is very present in this book very well documented on both flamenco and history. The scenes of "duende" -the time of graces flamenco-, as well as the war scenes are described with the same precision: beautiful for some, terrible for others.
A few days before the European elections it is interesting to remémorrer the last century Europe has experienced many terrifying hours. And Fascism word (Mussolini, Franco, Hitler ..) remains valid even if his more fractious current representatives deny it. The freedom fighters in Spain (because freedom is never on the side of the moral order willed by the military, the ruling classes and churches but by those places man and his vulnerable condition of the center of their concerns or combat), these brave fighters who have already embodied a Europe of freedom have not defeated. But frankly, who could say what would have become of Spain if the Communists had conquered ....? The country experienced the worst with the Franco dictatorship, but would have been a communist dictatorship? It was known much later elsewhere .... A dictatorship remains a fascist dictatorship ... and right gauche..méfiance fascists!
The author really interests us with his characters who are unwillingly drawn into this madness that will always be war.
Read listening Carmen Linares, Enrique morente, Ines Bacan, Chano Lobato ... or others for whom flamenco forms such as democracy in the word Liberty.
