Blind Sunflowers
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Blind Sunflowers
39.99 €
31.99 €
The main sensation of Spanish literature of the new century. Alberto Méndez wrote only one book in his life and died the same year it was published, but “Blind Sunflowers” had the effect of an exploding bomb. The book received many awards (including the main one in Spain — the National Prize for Literature), became a bestseller, was translated into many languages (the American story of “Blind Sunflowers” began with the publication in parts in the prestigious magazine “The New Yorker”) and served as the basis for a film of the same name, nominated by Spain for an Oscar. It seems banal that there are no winners in a civil war, however, Méndez talks about a total national defeat — at the level of human nature, at the level of the soul. The book consists of four stories, intertwined with jewelry subtlety, and each of them is entitled: “The First Defeat,” “The Second Defeat,” and so on. And in these absolutely inhuman conditions, when they kill not for what you did, but for what you think, people continue to live and even love. Here, a captain of the Francoist army deserts on the eve of victory and surrenders to the Republicans, doomed to defeat; here, a young poet flees to the mountains with his lover expecting a child; a prisoner cellist builds a multi-tiered building of lies for salvation only to collapse it; and a voluptuous deacon disguises his sinful lust with bloodthirsty calls for revenge...
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