I have to be honest. In this case, the reader was unaware of this story about a small group of men (organized by the Communist Party of Spain), ready to invade Spain and provoke an uprising against Franco in the fall of 1944 (The invasion of the Aran Valley, called in key Operation Reconquest of Spain). Through the unique history of Inés, a woman and republican in Franco’s Spain, and through the eyes of Galán (one of the guerrillas) we know this story of the “Reconquest of Spain” operation and the turbulent years of the Spanish postwar period. This book is already a few years old, it was published in 2010, but meeting Grandes’s literature is always comforting and essential.
