The years of silence, by Álvaro Arbina

There comes a time when the popular imagination is invaded by regrettable circumstances. In war there is no place for legends beyond the dedication to survival. But there are always myths that point to something else, to a magical resilience in the face of the most unfortunate future.

Among the consciences subdued by fear, the future of the most unsuspected character seeks those small spaces between fear and hope. Because bravery and epic, once narrated out loud, is now just a whisper of hope among phantasmagoric omens.

The very louis clog already warns us of the intensity of this story. A novel that goes beyond the common scenarios of the Spanish civil war to present us with that magnetic point of stories based on real events.

On a dark August night, Josefa Goñi Sagardía, an enigmatic seven-month-pregnant woman, disappeared from the face of the earth with her six minor children. At first, no one in the town heard anything, no one knew anything. But the secrets and the ghosts began to settle inside the houses. At dawn the next day, the town awoke in a silence that lasted longer than anyone would have imagined.

Buried instincts that awaken with war. A woman and her envy, the superstitions of a priest, a civil guard driven by fear, the temptation of a family man, a repressed young man and a frightened people who remain silent. enlarged rumors Insignificant, daily offenses and feelings that get tangled up with each other until they become deformed and become monsters.

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