From the series of «Capitán Arturo Andrade», a great black novel in Francoist Spain Black suns, here you will find the synopsis, technical sheet, analysis and more. Do not stop reading this article that will captivate you.
"A great character, placed at the height of the greats of the black novel."
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After the mysterious death of a girl in Extremadura, the famous captain Andrade returns to fully immerse us in a black novel set in the Franco regime. With the help of his friend Manolete, Andrade will reveal the dark ins and outs of high-ranking Spanish officials in general and of the Auxilio Social institution in particular, under which hundreds of republican children will be ?re-educated? or even sold to the highest bidder.
Technical sheet of black soles
Analysis and Summary
Pueblo Adentro, a village a few kilometers from his native Badajoz and the center of Extremadura's revolutionary resistance. Unable to come to terms with the frustrations of his past, he takes on the investigation of the mysterious and dark murder of a young girl. Captain Arturo Andrade is appointed to this terrible case.
This crime and the corpse of the little girl, is nothing more than the beginning of a battle between the highest positions and claims of some strong men who will work and will be available to enforce all these demands.
Andrade and Manolete, friend and comrade-in-arms in the Blue Division, will cross paths with the honor of the anarchist Ventura Rodríguez and his family, in a race against time to save the life of a missing girl and discover the truth.
Insolation
Bad fruit bears this land.
Celedonio kept his eyes fixed on a mound of freshly turned earth, on that arid and uncultivated farm on the edge of a holm oak grove.
A Prophecy of love and survival.
In ancient times, Greek soldiers returning from war had to go through a purification process before rejoining the society they had gone out to defend, and between the various rituals there was a temporary exile from the polis.
dead girls
Nicolás wrote biting his lips, tightening the nib more or less so that the letter had parts of fine line and others of broad line, totally committed to the work.
«Death was not just a lifeless body, but a language with its own alphabet and was there to decipher it."