Blind Sunflowers by Alberto Mendez
A captain in Franco's army renounces winning the war - on the very day of the victory; a young poet flees with his pregnant girlfriend and is forced to grow up quickly, only to die within a few months; a prisoner in Polier's jail refuses to live a lie so that his executioner can be held accountable; and, a lustful deacon hides his desires behind the apostolic fascism that clamours for the purifying blood of the defeated. Four subtly connected tales, narrated in the same spirit but with the individual styles of the different voices; these are stories from silent times, when people feared that others might discover what they knew. The line between the victorious and the defeated is blurred - whatever one's affiliation, nobody survives unscathed.
'No one arrives further than Alberto Mendez[The Blind Sunflowers] has the mark and the delirium of a book meditated throughout a lifetime; each line resonates as if it were the author's last...An exemplary book about the consequences of the Spanish Civil War' - El Pais'A first novel by an author I strongly recommend - not just as a critic, but as a reader without judgements or prejudices that I became from the first page' - La Vanguardia'One of the most intense and original books to have been published in Spain in recent years' - ABC'In his literary debut, Mendez displays a well-rounded and impeccable prose' - Heraldo de Aragon'The text touches the soul deeply. Read it' - Diario de Cordoba
Alberto Mendez (Madrid 1941-2004) studied in Rome and graduated in Literature and Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He worked in national and international publishing companies. He was awarded the Setenil Prize (a prize to the best short-story collection published in Spain) for The Blind Sunflowers in 2004, and in 2005 was awarded The Critic's Prize as well as the National Prize for Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905147779 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905147775 |
| Title | Blind Sunflowers |
| Author | Alberto Mendez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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