About the book: 1986 / Published in the magazine "Foreign Literature" No. 2, 1986 From the preface ... 1939, very little time passed after the capture of Catalonia by the Francoists. Barcelona in the hands of the Francoists, the cold autumn sun, the wind, torn Republican posters on the pavements and Esperanza, trying in vain to find out anything about the fate of her loved one. Her pain and despair, which breathe almost every line of the story, are caused not only by the loss of a loved one; it is equally the bitterness of defeat, pain for one’s people, for Catalonia...