by Francisco Umbral · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432055829
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«Pío XII, la escolta mora y un general sin un ojo» is the novel by Francisco Umbral, published by Planeta in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
The work recreates the adolescence of a narrator in a provincial city during the Spanish postwar period. Between miracle-mongering and everyday life, Umbral combines memory, irony and social criticism, and parades characters such as Pius XII, Millán Astray or Franco's Moorish guard in a tale with an esperpento tone.
It was a finalist for the Planeta Prize in 1985 and belongs to Umbral's «Francesillo» series.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction and for those who want to discover the ironic prose of Francisco Umbral.
Francisco Alejandro Pérez Martínez, better known as Francisco Umbral, was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist.
