A SERPENT IN THE HOUSE

De: Victoria F. Leffingwell

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This novel, as if it were a snake, travels a meandering journey. Although it begins in the year of the protagonist’s last burial, its chapters go winding back and forth through various decades, and in that sinuous course we learn about his murder, his life and the lives of some of those who surrounded him. But who killed him? Was it really the Maquis? Because at that time, only three years after the end of the Spanish civil war, under the umbrella of the name of that organization, some people who belonged to the winning side took the opportunity to commit misdeeds and go unpunished. With an ending that will not leave any reader indifferent, its pages take us to El Escorial, to Madrid in the 1920s, to the extensive farms of Extremadura, and to many other parts of Spanish geography, with a stylistic skill and flowing narrative that captures us from the first lines.