Soldiers in the Fog

A young soldier, Gustavo Sintora, arrives in Madrid Franco's rebel forces capture Málaga. He is posted to the Republican army's mobile entertainment unit who are billeted in a mansion on the city's outskirts and put on shows for troops along the front line. There he meets Serena Vergara, a seamstress who is destined to become the love of his life. As the war becomes darker and more intense, Sintora's unit is sent into action on the Ebro front. Faced with the horrors of the battlefield and the inevitability of defeat, the unit gradually disintegrates and the soldiers go their separate ways. Sintora rushes back to Madrid, desperate to find Serena ... Soldiers in the Fog was awarded the prestigious Primavera prize. "I don't like novels about the Spanish Civil War, but Soldiers in the Fog really blew me away." Paul Preston Antonio Soler was born in Málaga in 1956. His writing career began in 1992 with the publication of a collection of short stories and a novella. Since then, he has published more than a dozen novels, many of them award-winnin, several of them translated into a number of languages.