Back in shape of Lydia Salvayre after averaging fad! I was concerned to read a Goncourt, because too often it sounds wrong ... but then the subject, The Spanish Civil War, with a very original angle of approach, interested. The Spanish Civil War by historians who want specialists often is exhausting! between Poum, phalanges, Republicans quickly ... it gives an indigestible soup! while here the author shows us the whole stupidity and horror of the civil war, which changed forever Spain .... so why not 4 stars or more? too many sentences in Spanish: do not speak that language, and the author who does not believe it necessary to make translation notes, in the long run, it is painful .... even with Reverso If ..... L.Salvayre Cervantes was, she had to write all his book into Spanish and publish it in Madrid .... parrallel with the Bernanos is very relevant (fashionable now Bernanos) ... by cons I understand why the author is also interested specifically in Manacor (on the island of Mallorca)? it's a very small town in the Majorcan archipelago and for those interested in tennis is the city of Rafael Nadal, the great Spanish tennis champion .... is that why the narrator us said she looks with her mother a match between Nadal and Federer? I did not understand what it was doing there .... but good.
