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Title: Treasure of the Spanish Civil War & Other Tales
Author: PEY SERGE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 18/02/2020
Imprint: ARCHIPELAGO PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
An intimate portrait of childhood during Spain’s violent fascist regime, rendered in a surreal kaleidoscope of linked stories.
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.
ISBN: 9781939810540
Pages: 180