{"product_id":"uncertain-glory-9781681371801","title":"Uncertain Glory","description":"A \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2017\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo--a beautiful widow with a shadowy past--puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís's son on her own, letters from the front her only solace. With bombs falling as fast as the city's morale, she leaves to spend the winter with Lluís's brigade on a quiet section of the line. But even on \"dead\" fronts the guns do not stay silent for long. Trini's decision will put her family's fate in the hands of Juli Soleràs, an old friend and a traitor of easy conscience, a philosopher-cynic locked in an eternal struggle with himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoan Sales, a combatant in the Spanish Civil War, distilled his experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth, and crushed illusions. A thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoyevsky and Stendhal, \u003ci\u003eUncertain Glory\u003c\/i\u003e is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as \u003ci\u003eHomage to Catalonia \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681371801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2017 pg. 65\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews Fall Preview\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2017 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/14\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Joan Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52161333199029,"sku":"9781681371801","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a882bd0e-5c7e-43ea-a1d0-3e258ae1e415.jpg?v=1768317896","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/uncertain-glory-9781681371801","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}