by Jorge Semprún · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467202373
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«Veinte años y un día» is the novel by Jorge Semprún, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover and in Spanish.
At the La Maestranza estate, in 1956, the Avendaño family celebrates for the last time a ritual commemorating the death of a brother during the civil war. An American Hispanist and a commissar of the Political-Social Brigade investigate the family's past; the widow Mercedes Pombo hides secrets that surface and reveal the weight of the postwar period.
Círculo de Lectores published «Veinte años y un día» in 2003, in hardcover and in Spanish. In 2004 the work won the Fundación José Manuel Lara Prize.
For readers of Spanish fiction and history, especially those interested in the Civil War and its consequences.
Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled from the party in 1964. After the death of Franco and the change to a democratic government, he served as Minister of Culture in Spain's socialist government from 1988 to 1991.
