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Grandes, Almudena, 1960-
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction
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Grandes, Almudena, 1960-
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction
MARC Display
El
lector
de
Julio
Verne
[
Spanish
] :
la
guerrilla
de
Cencerro
y
el
Trienio
del
Terror
,
Jaén
,
Sierra
Sur
,
1947-1949
/ Almudena Grandes.
by
Grandes, Almudena, 1960-
Tusquets Editores, 2013, c2012.
Call #:
FICTION GRA
Subjects
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Fiction
Series
Colección Maxi.
ISBN:
9788483837672 (hc)
Alternate title:
The reader of
Julio
Verne
[
Spanish
]
Edition:
Spanish
: 1a. edición en colección Maxi en tapa dura: octubre
de
2013
Description:
417 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
In
Spanish
/En español
Summary:
"Nino, hijo
de
guardia civil, tiene nueve años, vive en
la
casa cuartel
de
un pueblo
de
la
Sierra
Sur
de
Jaén
,
y
nunca podrá olvidar
el
verano
de
1947. Pepe
el
Portugués,
el
forastero misterioso, fascinante, que acaba
de
instalarse en un molino apartado, se convierte en su amigo
y
su modelo,
el
hombre en
el
que le gustaría convertirse alguna vez. Mientras pasan juntos las tardes a
la
orilla
del
río, Nino se jurará a sí mismo que nunca será guardia civil como su padre,
y
comenzará a recibir clases
de
mecanografía en
el
cortijo
de
las Rubias, donde una familia
de
mujeres solas, viudas
y
huérfanas, resiste en
la
frontera entre
el
monte
y
el
llano. Mientras descubre un mundo nuevo gracias a las novelas
de
aventuras que le convertirán en otra persona, Nino comprende una verdad que nadie había querido contarle. En
la
Sierra
Sur
se está librando una guerra, pero los enemigos
de
su padre no son los suyos"--P. [4] of book jacket.
""Nino, son of a civil guard, is nine years old, lives in the barracks house of a village in the
Sierra
Sur
de
Jaén
, and can never forget the summer of 1947. Pepe
el
Portugués, the mysterious, fascinating stranger who has just settled in a remote mill, he becomes his friend and his model, the man he would like to become at some time in. While they spend their afternoons together at the riverbank, Nino will swear to himself that he will never be a civil guard like his father , and begin to receive typing classes in the Cortijo
de
las Rubias, where a family of single women, widows and orphans, resists on the border between the mountains and the plain, while discovering a new world thanks to the adventure novels that they will turn into another person, Nino understands a truth that nobody had wanted to tell him, a war is being waged in the
Sierra
Sur
, but his father's enemies are not his own "- English translation of the
Spanish
from Google Translate.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Spanish
fiction.
Spanish
language materials
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Multilingual Spanish
FICTION GRA
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