Ernest Hemingway
Pere Ginard (Illustrations)
"I was watching the bridge and the African looking country of the Ebro Delta and wondering how long now it would be before we would see the enemy, and listening all the while for the first noises that would signal that ever mysterious event called contact, and the old man still sat there.
It is Easter Sunday 1938. At a pontoon bridge across the Ebro river during the Spanish Civil War, an army scout encounter an old man who seems anchored to bridge, where people are crossing to escape the war zone. In the middle of a military action, the old man, who was only taking care of his animals, has been forced to leave his hometown. He is disoriented, confused and too tired to go any further. He will probably die at the bridge. Another innocent victim who has been uprooted and displaced by the war.
The epilogue of Ian Gibson, a specialist in Contemporary History, offers an accurate and rigorous contextualization of the facts underlying the Hemingway story.
165 x 240 mm; 96 pgs. Hardback with dust jacket
