Madrid, 1934. The winds of change are blowing in the Spain of the Second Republic when Bárbara, a young German woman who has managed to flee Berlin after the victory of the Nazi party in the elections, opens a small bookstore.
This becomes a place to dream of a free and hopeful future, but the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threatens to destroy everything Barbara has built. It will be her love for letters and for a young Republican that keeps her clinging to a country that faces a spiral of hatred and terror that she knows all too well and that will force her to fight for her life once again.
An exciting and rigorously documented novel by one of the most translated and read Spanish authors in the world. This hopeful and inspiring story in the face of the horror of intolerance is, above all, an indisputable tribute to literature.
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First line:
Kerri Young was a keen hunter-gatherer when it came to old books, the ones that jumped out at you with their yellowed and begged you to open them even just once.
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Source:
Source:
eARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review
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Rating:
DNF @ p.55 (24%)
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I don't think translated books are for me. I think it's hard to capture the emotion and flow of the dialogue. This is my second translated novel this year and I've DNF'ed both. I also wanted more to be happening. It didn't feel like there was a tension in the novel that was carrying us forward besides the abstract threat of potential political upset.
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