"Ligne de feu" (Gallimard), released this week, is a large, 650-page choral novel in which the author carefully describes the Battle of Ebro, which marks in 1938 the last great offensive of the Republican forces and their failure against Franco's nationalists. It is the first book that the prolific Arturo Pérez-Reverte, pillar of Spanish letters with nearly 50 books translated into forty languages, devotes to civil war.
"Ligne de feu" (Gallimard), released this week, is a large, 650-page choral novel in which the author carefully describes the Battle of Ebro, which marks in 1938 the last great offensive of the Republican forces and their failure against Franco's nationalists. It is the first book that the prolific Arturo Pérez-Reverte, pillar of Spanish letters with nearly 50 books translated into forty languages, devotes to civil war.