Buy 3, pay for 2 — use code TRIPLEUS at checkout.
by David Castillo · · tapa dura
* All our products are carefully inspected to support sustainable culture.
Every product is inspected, cleaned and verified before shipping. If it's not what you expected, we'll refund your money.
El tango de Dien Bien Phu es una novela coral que explora las biografías de personajes anónimos desde la salida de las columnas libertarias por la frontera en 1939 hasta la derrota francesa en Vietnam en 1954. A través de las investigaciones de Dani Cajal, el relato reconstruye testimonios directos, libros de memorias y documentos de archivos militares, mostrando la peripecia de una generación que sufrió la Guerra Civil, los campos de concentración franceses, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y los conflictos de la posguerra. La búsqueda de la letra de un tango de Gardel sirve para revisitar escenarios y momentos olvidados de algunos de los episodios más sangrientos del siglo XX, ofreciendo un retrato de los combatientes sin aspiración de gloria y sin voluntad de revancha.
David Castillo i Buïls is a Spanish poet, writer, and literary critic. He started out as a poet with counterculture and underground publications in the 1970s, although his first published work, a declaration of principles, was the biography of Bob Dylan in 1992. Three years earlier, he had been the anthologist of Ser del segle, which brought together leading voices of the generation of the 1980s. They were followed by a series of poems among them "Game over", which won the Carles Riba Poetry Prize. Then he began a career as a writer with novels like El cel de l'infern and No miris enrere, that were well accepted both by critics and the general public. El cel de l'infern was awarded the Crexells Prize for the best Catalan novel of the year in 1999. No miris enrere won the Premi Sant Jordi de novel·la of 2001. Castillo has received Atlàntida awards for journalism three times, and he has also been awarded the Italian "Tratti Poetry Prize for the best foreign poet" for his anthology of poetry translated into Italian. He has been organizing various poetic cycles. He is a founder of Poetry Week in Barcelona, and has been a director of it since 1997.
