Uncertain glory
By: Joan Sales ; translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush ; foreword by Juan Goytisolo
Contributors: Bush, Peter R., 1946- translator; Goytisolo, Juan, writer of foreword
Series: New York Review Books classics; New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781681371801
Subjects: Fiction; History
Work titles: Incerta glòria
Description: "A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís de Brocà 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 Lluís'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 Lluís'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 Soleràs, 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"--
Notes: English translation of the Catalan edition, Incerta glòria.