Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo

Synopsis of Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo

«Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo» is the novel by Francisco Umbral published by Planeta in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).

The novel evokes Spain during the war and postwar period through the gaze of an adolescent in a provincial city, with irony and melancholy. Between the heaven of the bishops, the hell of the hardest labors and the purgatory of adolescence parade Pío XII, the Virgin of Fátima, a general with one eye and Franco's Moorish guard.

Finalist for the Planeta Prize 1985. The novel belongs to the Francesillo series by Francisco Umbral.

For readers of twentieth-century Spanish fiction and of Umbral's ironic gaze on the postwar period.