Almudena Grandes [episodios De Una Guerra Int... May 2026

(2020): Explores the psychological repression of the 1950s through the lens of a psychiatric hospital in Ciempozuelos.

Grandes intended the series to act as a "poetics of memory," unearthing the "ghosts" of Spain’s past that had been silenced by decades of dictatorship and the subsequent "pact of forgetting" during the democratic transition. Each novel explores a specific, often overlooked historical event, centering on ordinary people caught in extraordinary political turmoil. Structure of the Series Almudena Grandes [Episodios De Una Guerra Int...

(2014): Set in postwar Madrid, it depicts the clandestine support networks for Republican prisoners. (2020): Explores the psychological repression of the 1950s