Winds of the Night (Read the World, Bk. 8)

Author:	Sales, Joan Bush, Peter
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9780857056160
Publisher:	MacLehose Press
Language:	English
Page Count:	256
Publication Date:	10/5/2017
Size:	8.82" l x 5.59" w x 0.94"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Fiction	Historical
Fiction	War & Military
Fiction	Literary

Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales' acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory.

It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a Republican chaplain who survives the war, and completes his theological studies only to lose his faith in a world where it seems all hope has been extinguished.

As he struggles to function as a rural priest, his steps are dogged by a ghostly figures from his past, such as Lamoneda, a fascist agent provocateur who now hobnobs with Himmler and misses few opportunities to turn the febrile post-war atmosphere to his financial advantage.

Against his wishes, Creulls is drawn into obsessive dialogues about the war in which only lunacy prevails, for Lamoneda seems to hold the key to the whereabouts of an old friend - the mercurial Juli Soleràs, whose charisma, for all his betrayals, still holds Cruells in thrall.

An essential coda to the modern classic that is Uncertain Glory, Winds of the Night is a Beckettian vision of the traumas of combatants and country hidden beneath the rhetoric of the victors.

Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush