Javier Cercas

Soldados de Salamina

Published 2001-09-01 · 220 pages

Taking as starting point an insignificant episode of the Spanish civil war, Soldados de Salamina (Salamis soldiers) is a novel about the literary vocation, about the meaning and value of narrative fictions and also about moral heroism.

The Impostor

An elderly man in his nineties, living in Barcelona, a Holocaust survivor who gave hundreds of speeches, granted dozens of interviews, received important national honors, and even moved government officials to tears. But in May 2005, Marco was exposed as a fraud: he was never in a Nazi concentration camp.