A review by thealbapoems
La península de las casas vacías by David Uclés

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

What a beautiful, jarring, painful, wonderful book. The best book on the Spanish Civil War I’ve read by far. It follows the lives of the Ardolento family throughout the war, in a country where there’s a God and a narrator, and the war is dictated by a chess game buried in Tenerife. Uclés has a masterful control of magical realism and manages to bring the joy of fantasy into the horrors of war. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone.