M???s de quince a???os despu???s de la publicaci???n de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la Guerra Civil con una novela m???s ???ntima y personal, que indaga en el pasado m???s inc???modo de su familia.Ninguna familia escapa a su herencia. Sobre los vencedores y los vencidos, y los secretos que todos callamos. Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se hab???a estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista.O desde antes. El monarca de las sombras narra la b???squeda del rastro perdido de un ...
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M???s de quince a???os despu???s de la publicaci???n de Soldados de Salamina, Javier Cercas regresa a la Guerra Civil con una novela m???s ???ntima y personal, que indaga en el pasado m???s inc???modo de su familia.Ninguna familia escapa a su herencia. Sobre los vencedores y los vencidos, y los secretos que todos callamos. Esta es la novela que Javier Cercas se hab???a estado preparando para escribir desde que quiso ser novelista.O desde antes. El monarca de las sombras narra la b???squeda del rastro perdido de un muchacho casi an???nimo que pele??? por una causa injusta y muri??? en el lado equivocado de la historia. Se llamaba Manuel Mena y en 1936, al estallar la guerra civil, se incorpor??? al ej???rcito de Franco; dos a???os despu???s muri??? combatiendo en la batalla del Ebro, y durante d???cadas se convirti??? en el h???roe oficial de su familia. Era t???o abuelo de Javier Cercas, quien siempre se neg??? a indagar en su historia, hasta que se sinti??? obligado a hacerlo. El resultado de esa indagaci???n es una novela absorbente, plet???rica de acci???n, de humor y de emoci???n, que nos enfrenta a algunos de los temas esenciales de la narrativa de Cercas: la naturaleza radiante, poli???drica y misteriosa del hero???smo, la terca pervivencia de los muertos y la dificultad de hacerse cargo del pasado m???s inc???modo. Exploraci???n a la vez local y universal, personal y colectiva, novela belicosamente antibelicista, El monarca de las sombras da una vuelta de tuerca inesperada y deslumbrante a la pregunta sobre la herencia de la guerra que Cercas abri??? a???os atr???s con Soldados de Salamina. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Over fifteen years after publishing Soldados de Salamina / Soldiers of Salamis , Javier Cercas returns once again to the Spanish Civil War, now with a much more intimate and personal novel that dives deep into his family's darkest past.No family is ever able to escape its past. This is the novel that Cercas has been preparing to write since he decided to be a writer, or even before then. El monarca de las sombras / The Monarch of Shadows is about the search for an almost forgotten young man who fought for justice and died on the wrong side of history. His name was Manuel Mena and he joined Franco's army when the Civil War broke in 1936. He died two years later in the battle of Ebro, and for decades he was the family hero; and was also Javier Cercas' great-uncle. For a long time Cercas refused to research Mena's story, until he felt compelled to do so. The result of his inquiries is a gripping novel, full of action, humor, and emotion, one that offers recurring themes in Cercas' narrative: heroism's radiant and mysterious nature, the Dead's stubbornness to stay alive, and the struggle to face one's uncomfortable past. El monarca de las sombras / The Monarch of Shadows gives an unexpected and dazzling twist to the question posed by Cercas years ago in Soldados de Salamina / Soldiers of Salamis, about the legacy left by war.
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