Las pequeñas victorias
By: María de los Angeles Serrano
Publisher: Grafismo Taller Editorial
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Caracas
Language: spa
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9789807412131
Description: This historical novel covers the coming to power of Francisco Franco, who through a coup in Spain 1936, establishes his dictatorship. It reveals all the circumstances of the Spanish civil war and the final period of the Second World War (1945). It shows the death, hunger, desolation, abandonment of the fields, treachery and betrayal that many men and women committed to protect their lives, sacrificing the safety of family and friends. This story begins and develops in the province of Murcia, city of Murcia, located southeast of the Iberian Peninsula on the banks of the River Segura. This family manages to circumvent the worst of the times and with the help of friends, they manage to move to Madrid, which had been bombed and was mostly wrapped in debris, dirt and neglect. Finally, they begin to envision a new opportunity. It opens before them, a horizon of hope in America as an alternative to live better. In Venezuela, the family gradually overcomes the initial difficulties of housing, work, and finally find security and peace.