Costras

The Polish reporter Katarzyna Kobylarczyk tells us about the wounds -some open, others poorly healed- left by the civil war and Franco's dictatorship in Spanish society. Costras is a book of stories, not of history, whose sensitivity and empathy brings us closer to the pain and loss of thousands of families, but also to recovered hope and memory. This literary report travels from the Valley of the Fallen to the anonymous republican gutters and cornered fascist graves, from yesterday's historical events to today's political debates, from the certainty of the bones recovered by forensic anthropologists to the uncertainty about how to find a healing story After dozens of interviews and trips throughout Spain, the author of it knows that, although "the main protagonists of this book are dead", the wounds remain and must, instead of being ignored, be understood and cared for.