Lit in Translation

Cry, Mother Spain

Pas pleurer

Lydie Salvayre (born 1946)

Translated by Ben Faccini

English editions

In English

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Two voices alternate: Georges Bernanos condemning the Church-blessed Nationalist terror he witnessed in Spain, and the narrator's mother Montse, who seventy years later recalls little but the glorious anarchist summer of 1936 in her Catalan village.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
278 pages in the original
Genres
War, Historical, Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Spain, 1936
First published
2014 by Seuil
Author's age
68 when first published
ISBN

9782021116199 (original)

9780857054494 (Quercus, United Kingdom)

9780857054524 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

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