Of good quality 21

Spanish Civil War on background, this book traces the crossed destinies of a Spanish family including the mother of the author, which describes the parallel Bernanos awareness of Franco horror and the church's complicity Catholic in the massacres of 1936 and 1937.
The Prix Goncourt is probably due to writing, fluid, pictorially, and brilliantly restoring the emotions of the various protagonists. To understand the subtleties of this short novel, one must have some knowledge in Spanish, some passages are not translated.

A good read, but can not be the best Goncourt I've read in recent years.