Javier cercas is a spanish author, professor and freelance journalist. As the guns fire, he escapes into the forest, and can hear a search party and their dogs hunting him down. Anne mclean s english translation of soldiers of salamis won the independent foreign fiction prize in 2004, and the novel was adapted into a film directed by david trueba in 2003. Sanchez mazas was a founding member of the falange party his party card was number 4 and its principal theoretician. At first, the narrator of the book believes that this scar has nothing to do with him, that it does not affect him. Then came soldiers of salamis, first published in 2001, which has sold more than halfamillion copies. When his hiding place is discovered, he faces death for the second time that daybut is spared, this time by a lone soldier. Distributed to the trade by holtzbrinck publishers, 1 online resource.
How cercass soldiers of salamis deals with memory, loss. Spanish journalist and novelist cercas strives for a. Spains bestselling book of the yearan awardwinning, wholly original and absorbing work of fiction by a modern master, at whose heart lies an investigation into the nature of historical truth. Soldiers of salamis by javier cercas book analysis. Soldiers of salamis pdf soldiers of salamis pdf are you looking for ebook soldiers of salamis pdf. Soldiers of salamis javier cercas by dylanbrunson issuu. The english translation by anne mclean won the independent foreign fiction prize for 2004.
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