Blood in the Earth: A Story of Lies and Silence Postwar Spain

Elche, the early years of the postwar. The war is over, but some things take longer to end. Gonzalo de la Serna arrives in the city to take charge of an Inspectorate that was already running before him. There are papers on the desk, unfinished business, and a way of doing things that no one seems much interested in explaining. >Roque prepares his wedding to Inés. Amparo tries to make everything turn out as it should. Valentín Alonso surveys land, irrigation ditches, and boundaries. Tomás takes the jobs he finds. Salvador Vives collects the dead. People buy when they can, borrow when they must, and try not to ask more than they should. Because in a town everyone knows something. >And they also know that some things are better left unsaid. >And some names keep coming back. >A story of earth, hunger, fear, weddings, favors, and silences in postwar Spain.