History to three times. Since 2011 and going back to 1938 and 1945. Three times that bring to the present a very personal legacy for Juan Delforo, the protagonist of the novel. But in his legacy, Juan Delforo also collects a crucial testimony for the understanding of the construction of a country, Spain, whose current reality is indebted to its secrets, its fratricidal battles and its more or less true spirit of reconciliation.
Juan Delforo is a writer, and Dimas Prado is in charge of delivering him the most transcendental of arguments. A great little story that the young writer will discover astonished. Something worth writing, while the very pages of his life are completely rewritten before the gradual discovery.
The moment of receipt of the legacy and its meaning is linked to the period of the Spanish Civil War, and also with the postwar period. But in this book Sleeping dogs We are not presented with a war plot, rather it is a process of mimetization with the greatness and miseries of the human being during those moments in which he is involved in difficult times.
Dimas Prado, Falangist and former police officer. Juan Delforo, Republican by birth and former anti-fascist militant. It is not about looking for an impossible communion. But we do end up finding out what can link them.
A writer always ends up succumbing to a good story, even if it involves him deeply and makes him face his deepest contradictions, emerging from an unknown past to an unexpected present.
A leisurely intrigue of linked scenarios in an unpredictable temporal evolution, but as real and natural as the lives of all its characters, which beats strong and fascinates you with its nuances, with its iron truths about an absolutely variable human condition of the greatest goodness to the lowest filth.
The past of Juan Delforo and Dimas Prado is firmly linked, and is made up of enigmatic moments, of unspeakable moments, always watched over by those dogs that sleep in their conscience.
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