by Jesús Torbado, Manuel Leguineche · CAPITAN SWING S.L · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493832704
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History books say that the Spanish Civil War ended in 1939. But, after the last war report, many combatants, public officials and sympathizers of the legitimate Republican government were forced to flee from Franco's repression and hide like moles. In the late sixties, after the amnesty decree granted by the dictator, the moles came out, like mushrooms after the rain, from the hole where they had lived hidden, still fearing reprisals. In eight years of investigation, the authors of Los Topos followed clues, received slams, death threats, etc. All to get the shocking testimonies of those who were persecuted by an invisible enemy that buried them alive. Their testimonies speak of the experience of their captivity, but also speak of the other disappeared who could not tell their own story, and of the great collective sacrifice that marked their lives and those of their families.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
