Uncertain Glory by Sales, Joan

Uncertain Glory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781681371801)

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Uncertain Glory by Sales, Joan

Uncertain Glory

$18.95
Uncertain Glory by Sales, Joan

Uncertain Glory

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF 2017

A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.

Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Llu s Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo--a beautiful widow with a shadowy past--puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Llu s's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Llu s's brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on "dead" fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's fate in the hands of Juli Soler s, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself.

Joan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls.



Author: Joan Sales
ISBN-10: 1681371804
ISBN-13: 9781681371801
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2017
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2017 pg. 65
Publishers Weekly 08/14/2017
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2017 pg. 16
Shelf Awareness 11/14/2017
By Joan Sales
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Joan Sales (1912-1983) was born in Barcelona to a Catalan family. In 1932, he earned a law degree from the University of Barcelona and in 1933 married Maria Núria Folch. Their daughter, Núria, was born the following year. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Sales, who was a member of several regional anarchist and Communist groups, fought for the Republican government on the Madrid and Aragonese fronts before going into exile in France in 1939. He moved to Dominica in 1940, then Mexico in 1942, finally returning to Catalonia in 1948. In 1955 he co-founded the publishing house Club Editor, where he would edit and publish some of the most important authors of twentieth-century Catalan literature, among them Màrius Torres and Mercè Rodoreda, as well as his own work, including a book of poems, Viatge d'un moribund (1952); a collection of letters from his wartime and exile experiences, Cartes a Màrius Torres (1976); and a Catalan translation of The Brothers Karamazov. He died in Barcelona.

Peter Bush is an award-winning translator who lives in Oxford. Among his recent translations are Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook, which won the 2014 Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, and Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Tyrant Banderas (both for NYRB Classics); Emili Teixidor's Black Bread, Jorge Carrión's Bookshops, and Prudenci Beltrana's Josafat.

Juan Goytisolo (1931-2017) was born in Barcelona and was the author of many novels, including Marks of Identity, Count Julian, Juan the Landless, and The Garden of Secrets, as well as two volumes of autobiography.

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