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Book · 2005
Las cenizas del hierro
In the sweeping finale to Ramiro Pinilla's Basque trilogy Verdes valles, colinas rojas, the industrial town of Getxo endures the grim aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. As Basque industrial elites compromise with Franco's victorious dictatorship to secure their fortunes, a rising generation of youths mounts clandestine resistance against Francoist repression. Chronicling the decline of powerful dynasties, personal betrayals, and the escalation of political violence leading up to early ETA actions, this novel captures the profound upheaval of a society caught between traditional heritage and modern historical fracture.
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Few living Spanish authors would have been able to create and sustain a fictional universe as populated and complex as this, and emerge triumphant. There is something Faulknerian in the way Ramiro Pinilla approaches his overall body of work, even if those of us from here find it strange to think of Getxo as a new Yoknapatawpha.
Santi on Un libro al día The final part of the trilogy. Monumental, enlightening. A powerful ending, a flight back to the beginning. Essential.
141008 on Quelibroleo Masterful! Ramiro Pinilla has gradually unfolded the history of a century, of a family, of a culture, of a conflict, set in the Basque Country (Getxo). There was no rush. The landscape and its people gradually filled with proper names and great stories. This trilogy is not, unlike much of contemporary literature, born of haste (haste to compose it, haste to publish it, haste to consume it).
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