Madrid Will Be Their Tomb
Publisher: Fum D'Estampa Press
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London, UK
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Madrid será la tumba
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781913744397
Description: Two occupied buildings: one the former headquarters of the NO-DO (a Francoist propaganda outlet) that has been taken over by a small group of fascists, the other the ruins of some abandoned film studios that have been converted into the barracks of a Marxist-Leninist cell. Drifting between these two spaces are Santiago and Ramiro; two characters who, although finding solace in two polarised political groups, cross paths and change each other’s lives. Discursive and devastating, Duval’s first novel is imbued with the same traits as the era she portrays. A sad, passionate, and all too real portrait of an ever more divided world, Duval’s story, in her powerful, shocking, yet considered prose, reminds us of the uncomfortable, but somewhat comforting similarities we may find with the “enemy”