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Un dia de colera (Spanish Edition)

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The author did two things: a homage to the unknown heroes of the civil uprising in Madrid on May 2, 1808 and the description of the events. It is a kind of "24 hours" (TV programme) in writing.

It keeps you tied to the narrative wanting to know the expected results, for the uprising is a well known historical fact.

If you read the book in its original language, Spanish, you will enjoy the elegant and perfect usage of the language as it was used in those days. It is not "Chaucer' like, but the description of mores, uniforms, streets are accurate, as far as I can tell.

Great book. I know the translation to English will be done well. All the other translations of the previous novels were well done.

Thanks for the opportunity to describe a great book

Excellent review of the events that took place in Madrid Spain the second of May of 1808. On that day the people of Madrid rose into revolt against the french occupation forces.

On this account Pérez-Reverte places the reader in the middle of the revolt, thanks to its excellent usage of contemporary sources.

You can feel the emotion, the anger and the colective anxiety that only true love for King and country can generate.

We place ourselves side by side with the cannons of captain Daoíz and Velarde who where one of the few spanish professional officers who took arms along with the insurgents, and we share their pride in having repulsed three attacks by the Grand Armee.. we also share their sorrow when everything ends the moment they are overrun by the french.

On the final part our blood freezes with the chilling accounts of the insurgents execution in the night rain, executions that were accurately displayes in Goya's painting.

In summary this book can be summed up in the words of the brother of Lieutant de Arango as he is going into the fray...Remember always that we were born Spanish..

Acuérdate siempre de que hemos nacido españoles.

Pity that there is not english translated version that I know of.

I LIKED UN DIA DE COLERA AS MUCH AS ALL THE PEREZ-REVERTE BOOKS I READ. THIS ONE I DID NOT FINISH BECAUSE THERE WEE 14 BLANK PAGES IN THE BOOK. IMAGINE MY DISSAPPOINTMEMT. THE SUPPLIER DID NOT REPLACE THE BOOK AND I STILL EXPECT THEY WILLO.

SO YOU THINK ABOUT IT. A BUM DEAL FGOR ME.

LUIS

As if one is seated on a balcony overlooking the Plaza Mayor in Madrid and witnessing, by means of a wide angle lens viewer, the acts of heroism and, too, bestiality of a people fed up with being governed by usurpers and tyrants.