(2014): Set in postwar Madrid, it depicts the clandestine support networks for Republican prisoners.
The series was originally planned as six independent but interconnected novels. While each can be read as a standalone work, recurring secondary characters create a cohesive literary universe. Almudena Grandes [Episodios De Una Guerra Int...
(2017): A spy thriller involving a doctor who discovers a secret network assisting Nazi war criminals in fleeing to South America via Spain. (2014): Set in postwar Madrid, it depicts the
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 (2017): A spy thriller involving a doctor who
(2012): A coming-of-age story set in 1947 Andalusia, following a boy who discovers the world of the anti-Franco maquis (guerrillas).
Almudena Grandes’ (Episodes of an Unending War) is a monumental narrative project that chronicles the anti-Franco resistance in Spain from 1939 to 1964. Inspired by Benito Pérez Galdós’ 19th-century Episodios Nacionales , Grandes blends meticulous historical research with fiction to give voice to those on the "losing side" of history—the victims, the exiled, and the guerrilla fighters who continued the struggle long after the Civil War officially ended. The Core Mission: Historical Memory