El batallón y otros relatos

This book includes the winning story by the Galician writer Alfredo Conde, entitled El batallón, and the five finalist stories: De amores y de olores by Elías Rafful (México); Así ha sido siempre by Antonio Iniesta (Spain); El encargo by Julio César Rodríguez (Perú) and Las angustias de Julia Quitería by Sandro Patrucco (Perú). The Ibero-American range of finalists is striking. It shows the interest in the historical story in the set of Ibero-American nations. It also validates that happy confluence between literature and history. You can see how the authors ignore the historical event to give way to fiction, beautifully constructed, without losing that illusion of truth, which animates good literature.