by Paco Cerdà Arroyo · Pepitas de calabaza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417386504
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In the winter of 1962, in Stockholm, two men from very different worlds face each other on a chessboard. Arturo Pomar, a post-war child prodigy who now works as a postal assistant in Ciempozuelos, faces his last great sporting opportunity against Bobby Fischer, an eccentric and ambitious young American. One was a pawn of Francoism, the other will be of the Cold War. With this game as a common thread, 'El peón' traces the lives of numerous characters dedicated to a political cause in Franco's Spain or in Kennedy's United States in that convulsive 1962. Through communists, maquis, workers, socialists, etarras, Christians, republicans, students or falangists; African-Americans, pacifists, indigenous people, anti-nuclear activists, leftists or blindly obedient soldiers, Paco Cerdà weaves a story about personal commitment, chess and power, reflecting on how History affects people's lives and how individual sacrifice explains collective struggles.
