by José Luis Olaizola, Fernando Quiñones · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422616740
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«La guerra del general Escobar / La canción del pirata» is a double volume by José Luis Olaizola and Fernando Quiñones (Planeta, hardback, 343 pages).
The first novel follows Colonel Antonio Escobar, a Civil Guard officer who in 1936 tries to halt the military uprising in Barcelona and remains loyal to the constituted government. The second recounts the memoirs of Juan Cantueso, a seventeenth-century adventurer imprisoned in Cádiz, between Spain, Venice and the Indies, with pirates and a trial.
«La guerra del general Escobar» won the Planeta Prize in 1983 and «La canción del pirata» was a finalist for the same award. Edition in Spanish.
For readers of Spanish historical fiction and adventure stories, with an interest in the Civil War and seventeenth-century Spain.
José Luis Olaizola Sarriá was a Spanish writer.
