by Jesús Torbado, Manuel Leguineche · Argos · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788470174780
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«Los topos» is the historical essay by Jesús Torbado and Manuel Leguineche, published by Argos Vergara in 1977 in paperback (481 pages, in Spanish).
It reconstructs through interviews and testimonies the lives of those who went into hiding during the Civil War and the postwar period for fear of repression. It portrays their daily life in hideouts, false bottoms and other hiding places, as well as the harshness of clandestinity in Francoist Spain.
First edition published in Barcelona; includes black-and-white photographs and is part of the Argos/Vergara collection.
For readers interested in the Spanish Civil War, Francoist repression and the social history of Spain.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
