El tango de Dien Bien Phu

The libertarian Dani Cajal, perhaps a transcript of the author, has resumed his investigations and now focuses his gaze on a very different excuse to start: the search for the lyrics of a missing Gardel tango, the anthem of the refugees in the fields of the Argeles beaches, from which it will reach Vietnam and will cross part of the wars and conflicts of the 20th century. Thus, from direct witnesses, memoirs and documents from military archives, he reconstructs, step by step, the life of a whole generation that suffered the Civil War, the French concentration camps, the Second World War and, in many cases, post-war conflicts. In his search, Cajal revisits almost forgotten scenes and moments from some of the bloodiest episodes of the last century. From the departure of the libertarian columns across the border in 1939 to the French defeat in Vietnam in 1954, this is a choral novel that explores the biographies of anonymous characters who were not afraid of defeat. David Castillo manages in this novel, through the eyes of its protagonist, to become the critical eye of the generation that has preceded us. With no desire for revenge or any pretense of judgment, Dien Bien Phu's tango finally undoes the heroic interpretations of the great wars of the last century.