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El viaje de mi padresecond-hand

Published by ALFAGUARA · Lifestyle and hobbies · ISBN 9788420479279

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Julio Llamazares retraces the route his father and his comrades took during the Spanish Civil War, across the land that runs through the heart of the peninsula, travelling in the same months of the year to come closer to what they lived through. Along the way he gathers the stories his father used to tell him, which he paid little attention to as a young man, and meets people who still remember that brutal winter.

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Who it's for
For readers of travel writing and memoir, and for anyone interested in the Spanish Civil War and Spain's emptying countryside. Critics describe the prose as plain and unadorned.
Why people still read it
It won Spain's 2026 National Prize for Narrative, and Babelia named it one of the best books of 2025.

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