El niño que perdió la guerra

Synopsis of El niño que perdió la guerra

Madrid, winter of 1938. During the final months of the Spanish Civil War, Clotilde, a graphic artist, is forced to send her five-year-old son, Pablo, to Moscow to protect him from the conflict. There, the boy is taken in by a new family, where Anya, a rebellious woman who loves culture, cares for him as her own while they both face the oppression of Stalinist terror. This moving and ambitious novel by Julia Navarro explores identity, the struggle for freedom, and the power of culture in the face of barbarism. Through the lives of two women linked by a child's fate, the work offers an intense and poignant fresco of the totalitarian ideologies that defined the 20th century, showing that even in the darkest moments of history, life and hope always find a way.