"Perhaps the worst thing about war is the peace that follows ..." The follow-up to Uncertain Glory, the acclaimed masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War In this bravura novel of the Spanish Civil War, Catalan author Joan Sales evokes its messy, devastating lived reality, but even more memorably the intense feeling of being alive which war paradoxically produces... at the novel's core is a group of young 'voices', brilliantly rendered, as they rage to live.