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The treasure of the Spanish Civil War / Serge Pey ; translated from French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Van Pelt Library PQ2676.E878 A2 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pey, Serge, 1950- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Trésor de la guerre d'Espagne. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Political refugees.
- History.
- Refugees.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Refugees--Fiction.
- Spain.
- Political refugees--France--Fiction.
- Pey, Serge, 1950-.
- France.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Translations.
- Short stories.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 135 pages ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Serge Pey's stories are vivid vignettes of the lives of Spanish Civil War refugees and their children, who fled on foot from Catalonia to Southern France through the Pyrenees, only to be interned in French prison camps upon their arrival. A kaleidoscope of memory and imagination, the collection is a series of surreal glimpses from the perspective of political refugees, many of them children. Through their eyes, we see the secret language of resistance: codes in clothes lines, secret libraries of banned books, cherry trees named for assassinated comrades. Pey's understated yet unusual prose renders a brutal landscape with childlike wonder. The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War and Other Tales is a story of immigrants reclaiming a silenced history and returning it to the present, one that echoes the oppressive borders of today"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- An execution
- The washing and the clothes line
- La Cega
- Dog language
- Cherry thief
- The scarab's revenge
- The movies
- The piece of wood
- Morse code
- Chess and beauty
- The arrest
- The white library
- The treasure of the Spanish Civil War
- The apostle of peace
- The bench.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in the French as Le Trésor de la guerre d'Espagne by Zulma, 2011"--Title page verso.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pey, Serge, 1950- The treasure of the Spanish Civil War
- ISBN:
- 9781939810540
- 193981054X
- OCLC:
- 1129396616
- Publisher Number:
- 99983781203
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