Hacia el final de la guerra civil se produjo, cerca de la frontera con Francia, un fusilamiento de prisioneros franquistas. Uno de ellos escap con vida, gracias a un joven soldado republicano, y se pudo refugiar en el bosque. Se trataba de Rafael S nchez Mazas, poeta, fundador de Falange y futuro ministro de Franco. Sesenta a os m s tarde, un novelista en horas bajas desentierra este episodio b lico y, fascinado por l, se propone investigar y aclarar sus circunstancias.

Soldados de Salamina, novela de Javier Cercas publicada originalmente en 2001, ha sido aclamada como un cl sico moderno de la literatura por, entre otros, Kenzaburo O , Susan Sontag, George Steiner o Mario Vargas Llosa. Presentamos ahora una minuciosa adaptaci n gr fica a cargo de Jose Pablo Garc a, uno de los autores de c mic espa oles con m s proyecci n internacional.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War a writer and founding member of Franco s Fascist Party is about to be shot and yet miraculously escapes into the forest When his hiding place is discovered he faces death for the second time that day but is spared this time by a lone soldier The POW becomes a national hero and a member of Franco s first government while the soldier is forgotten Sixty years later Cercas s novel peels back the layers of truth and propaganda in order to discover who the real hero was Elegantly constructed and told with self deprecating melancholy humor Soldiers of Salamis is a wholly original work of literature by a modern master