by Víctor Alba · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432053443
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«El pájaro africano» is the novel by Spanish writer Víctor Alba, published in 1975 by Editorial Planeta in hardcover (292 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Barcelona in 1938, the plot follows Ramón Milá, a sixteen-year-old with no political commitment who is dragged into hiding out of solidarity with a friend who is a POUM militant arrested by the police.
First edition in the Autores Españoles e Hispanoamericanos collection; finalist for the 1975 Premio Planeta.
Recommended reading from age 12 for those seeking twentieth-century Spanish fiction and stories set during the civil war.
Víctor Alba who also went as Pere Pagès i Elies was a Spanish anti-Stalinist communist politician, journalist, writer and Spanish university professor.
