Serge Pey's stories are lyrical, vivid vignettes of life during and directly following Spain's violent fascist regime of the thirties and forties.
The collection is a defiant ode to the resilience of the human spirit, each story depicting a small act of human resistance: a man plants a fruit tree for each of his assassinated comrades; a professor hides a secret library of banned books in plain sight.
Many of the stories are surreal, fable-like impressions from the perspective of children caught in the midst of the political violence.
Pey's understated yet unusual prose renders a brutal landscape with childlike wonder.
The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War and Other Tales is a strikingly original meditation on courage, survival, and hope in the face of oppression.
| Resistance | A man plants a fruit tree for each of his assassinated comrades |
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85.00 Lei
