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Published by Random House · History and archaeology · ISBN 9788439747161

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Javier Cercas tells half a century of Spanish history through the newspaper El País, first published on 4 May 1976, less than six months after Franco's death. It is at once a personal history of the period, a reflection on the ties between journalism and literature, an account of how he himself was formed as a writer, and a tribute to the press as a defender of freedoms.

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For readers interested in Spain's transition to democracy and the decades after it, in journalism as a craft, and in Cercas's work.

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