Castillos de fuego

Madrid, 1939-1945. Many struggle to get ahead in a city marked by hunger, penury and the black market. Like Eloy, a crippled young man who tries to save his imprisoned brother from death row; Alicia, a movie theater ticket saleswoman who loses her job for following her heart; Basilio, a university professor who is facing a purification process; the Falangist Matías, who traffics in confiscated objects, or Valentín, capable of any vileness in order to purge his previous militancy. Seamstresses, students, policemen: lives of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Castles of Fire is a novel that contains more truth than many history books and that conveys the pulse of a time in which fear almost wiped out hope that naturally made its way through devastation. A time of reconstruction in which the war has ended only for a few but in which no one is safe, neither those who rose at the feet of the dictator nor those who fought to overthrow him. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón returns with an ambitious choral novel in which he mixes a superb and documented historical setting with the fascinating future of a handful of unforgettable characters, and which represents the culmination of a great literary career crowned by books so celebrated by critics and the public. like The good reputation, The day after tomorrow and Milk teeth.