David Uclã(c)S La Penã-Nsula de Las Casas Vacã-As / The Peninsula of Vacant Houses

UNA NOVELA TOTAL SOBRE LA GUERRA CIVIL ESPA?OLA EN CLAVE DE REALISMO M?GICO He aqu? la historia de la descomposici?n total de una familia, de la deshumanizaci?n de un pueblo, de la desintegraci?n de un territorio y de una pen?nsula de casas vac?as. La historia de un soldado que se raja la piel para dejar salir la ceniza acumulada, de un poeta que cose la sombra de una ni?a tras un bombardeo, y de un maestro que ense?a a sus alumnos a hacerse los muertos; de un general que duerme junto a la mano cortada de una santa, de un ni?o ciego que recupera la vista durante un apag?n, y de una campesina que pinta de negro todos los ?rboles de su huerto; de un fot?grafo extranjero que pisa una mina cerca de Brunete y no levanta el pie en cuarenta a?os, de un gernikarra que conduce hasta el centro de Par?s una camioneta con los restos humeantes de un ataque a?reo, y de un perro herido cuya sangre te?ir? la ?ltima franja de una bandera abandonada en Badajoz. He aqu? pues la historia total de la Guerra Civil espa?ola y de una Iberia agonizante donde lo fant?stico apuntala la crudeza de lo real; donde los an?nimos miembros de un extenso clan de olivareros de J?ndula cruzan sus destinos con los de Alberti, Lorca y Unamuno; Rodoreda, Zambrano y Kent; Hemingway, Orwell y Bernanos; Picasso y Mallo; Aza?a y Fox?; donde lo ?pico y lo costumbrista se entrelazan para tejer un portentoso tapiz, po?tico y grotesco, bello y delirante. «Con una prosa imprevista, tan original como desacomplejada, David Ucl?s es un aut?ntico soplo de aire fresco en las letras espa?olas . - Pablo Mart?n S?nchez ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A NOVEL ABOUT THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR WRITTEN IN THE KEY OF MAGICAL REALISM This is the story of the total breakdown of a family, the dehumanization of a people, the disintegration of a territory, and a peninsula of empty houses. The story of a soldier who cuts his skin to let out the accumulated ash, of a poet who sews the shadow of a girl after a bombing, and of a teacher who teaches his students to play dead; of a general who sleeps next to the severed hand of a saint, of a blind boy who regains his sight during a blackout, and of a peasant woman who paints all the trees in her orchard black; of a foreign photographer who steps on a mine near Brunete and does not lift his foot for forty years, of a man from Gernika who drives a truck with the smoldering remains of an air raid to the center of Paris, and of a wounded dog whose blood will stain the last strip of a flag abandoned in Badajoz. Here, then, is the complete history of the Spanish Civil War and of a dying Iberia where the fantastic underpins the harshness of reality; where the anonymous members of a large clan of olive growers from J?ndula cross paths with Alberti, Lorca, and Unamuno; Rodoreda, Zambrano, and Kent; Hemingway, Orwell, and Bernanos; Picasso and Mallo; Aza?a and Fox?; where the epic and the traditional intertwine to weave a portentous tapestry, poetic and grotesque, beautiful and delirious. "With his unexpected prose, as original as it is uninhibited, David Ucl?s is a real breath of fresh air in Spanish literature." - Pablo Mart?n S?nchez