TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sales,Joan
AU  - Bush,Peter R.
AU  - Goytisolo,Juan
TI  - Uncertain glory
T2  - New York Review Books classics
SN  - 9781681371801 (paperback)
AV  - PC3941.S336 I513 2017
U1  - 808.83/81 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York Review Books
KW  - FICTION / Historical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / War & Military
KW  - FICTION / Political
KW  - Spain
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1936-1939
KW  - Fiction
KW  - War stories
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Love stories
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.  Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant LluiÌs de BrocaÌ i de 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 LluiÌs's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with LluiÌs's 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 SoleraÌs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish 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 Dostoyevsky 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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