{"product_id":"winds-of-the-night","title":"Winds of the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Perhaps the worst thing about war is the peace that follows . . .\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinds of the Night \u003c\/i\u003eis the follow-up published almost thirty years later to Joan Sales' acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War \u003ci\u003eUncertain Glory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells a Republican chaplain who survives the war and completes his theological studies only to lose his faith in a world where it seems all hope has been extinguished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he struggles to function as a rural priest his steps are dogged by a ghostly figures from his past such as Lamoneda a fascist agent provocateur who now hobnobs with Himmler and misses few opportunities to turn the febrile post-war atmosphere to his financial advantage. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst his wishes Creulls is drawn into obsessive dialogues about the war in which only lunacy prevails for Lamoneda seems to hold the key to the whereabouts of an old friend - the mercurial Juli Soler?s whose charisma for all his betrayals still holds Cruells in thrall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential coda to the modern classic that is \u003ci\u003eUncertain Glory\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWinds of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a Beckettian vision of the traumas of combatants and country hidden beneath the rhetoric of the victors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Catalan by Peter Bush\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786478645427,"sku":"9780857056177","price":840.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477289529780857056177.jpg?v=1762802621","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/winds-of-the-night","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}