Hubo una vez otra guerra

Synopsis of Hubo una vez otra guerra

«Hubo una vez otra guerra» is the young adult novel by Luis Antonio Puente and Fernando Lalana, published by Ediciones SM in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).

In the 1950s, in a village in the Aragonese Somontano, two youth gangs, the Barrio Alto and the Barrio Bajo, unknowingly reproduce the feuds their elders have carried since the Civil War. The silences and hatreds of the past resurface, and the young people find themselves caught up in a war they thought was over.

Novel based on real events, part of the Gran Angular collection. It won the Gran Angular Prize in 1988 and was selected for the White Ravens list of the Munich library.

For young readers fond of postwar narrative, with an interest in historical memory and stories of gangs in the rural world.