Writer: Ana R. Cañil
Publisher: Espasa
Year: 2008
Pages: 424
IBSN-13: 9788467032864
Mark: 10/10
SYNOPSIS
Cantabria, 1957. Paco Bedoya, the last maqui, died because of the bullets
of the Civil Guard. Nineteen years have passed since Franco won the war,
nineteen years during which a handful of men, with the support of the people of
some lost valleys, kept their fight for the freedom. This is the story of those
men and women that suffered tortures, imprisonment and repression. Still today
fear inhabit in the corners of the manor houses, the cracks of the walls, under
the moss and the verdigris that cover the ashlar stones. The fear, the fear…
And the shame. They are willing to recover a painful and shaddy time where
there were love and passion, solidarity and silent memories. It is too the
history of the love between Paco Bedoya, the last maqui, and Mercedes San
Honorio, two young people that fell in love before turning twenty years and
that had a child, they had to live their love separated and had to dream that
someday they could meet again. Ana R. Cañil, based on a great
documentation and with real testimonies, have written a tale that overflows
with emotion, passion and epic, in where the protagonists talk in first person
making their history everybody’s.
