The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella moun

スペイン内戦は終わった瞬間から、文学のインスピレーションの源となってきた。本書も内戦をテーマとした作品のひとつ。具体的には、エブロ川の戦い、特にラ・ファタレリャ山中の戦闘から想を得たもの。本書の特徴は、登場人物は実在の人物だが、小説風にアレンジされていること。特定の地方のことを描きながら作品世界は普遍的で、だれでも共感できる。だれひとり無関心ではいられない物語。

The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella moun

A Guerra Civil tem sido fonte de inspiração literária, praticamente desde quando terminou em 1939. O menino e a cidade perdida é uma nova prova disso: mais concretamente, se inspira na batalha do Ebro e, principalmente, na serra da Fatarella.