by Jorge Semprún · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483102466
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«Veinte años y un día» is a historical novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
In 1956, in Quismondo (Toledo), the Avendaño family holds a ceremony commemorating the execution of the younger brother during the civil war. An American Hispanist and a commissar of the Political-Social Brigade investigate the family's past and uncover secrets and hidden relationships surrounding the widow Mercedes Pombo, in postwar Spain.
This is the first novel Jorge Semprún wrote directly in Spanish. Published in 2003 in the Andanzas collection (no. 516).
For readers of historical fiction and narrative on memory, postwar Spain, and anti-Francoism.
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and the change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991.
