MB Agencia Literaria

(Days and Nights) On the 25^th May 1939, the Sinaia set sail for Mexico with 1,599 passengers on board who had just lost everything except their lives. Among them was one Justo García, a young man who had discovered the horror and desolation of a war that radically transformed thousands of Spaniards. Justo García goes from the Spanish front to a refugee camp in Saint Cyprien in the south of France, where hundreds of men were either killed or went mad; he sees a Paris full of erratic exiles, pursued by both the gendarmes and their former comrades and, finally, boards the Sinaia, not managing to put his past behind him. All that remains of Justo is his diary, the words that have become the most moving and impressive witness to a story in which human misery and greatness meet at a unique point: the struggle to maintain individual dignity intact.

(Spain, Espasa Calpe; Destino); (France, Buchet Chastel); (Greece, Polis); (Portugal, Edicões 70)