Anatomy Of A Moment

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 403 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In February 1981,just as Spain was set to leave Francos dictatorship and embark upon a new era of democracy, Lieutenant Colonel Tejero and his band of civil guards stormed the parliament and opened fire. Only three members of Congress did not dive for cover: Adolfo Suarez, the outgoing prime minister, General Gutierrez Mellado and Santiago Carrillo, head of the newly legalised Communist party.In the Anatomy of a Moment, Javier Cercas, one of Spains most important writers, combines the facts of history with the novelists flair to capture the coup which symbolised Spains final struggle to end its brutal civil war, employing insight, intricacy and incisive judgement to recreate the tension felt by a country whose future hung uncertainly in the balance.

ISBN: 9781408805602