Alma de cántaro

"I am a book of stories, of little stories," says Piedad of herself, referring to everything she had to endure in the postwar period. Alma de Cántaro is also a book of stories, a polyphonic story that recreates the postwar years in the context of a small town in Cordoba. There is a desire in these pages to novelize the helplessness and suffocating atmosphere of Francoism, but also to invoke the testimony of those women who, like Piedad, were silenced agents of the painful circumstances that devastated Spain after the fratricidal conflict of 36. In this sense, the novel is a clear expression of the sorority during the postwar period. The recreation of this particular Andalusian microcosm, in which mourned widows, gentlemen, teachers, civilians with tricorn and members of the refugee resistance in the mountains parade, constitutes a vivid frieze of the reality of rural Francoism, which allows us to look into misery morality of an ominous epoch in the history of Spain.