El columnista : Amor y mentiras en un mundo en guerra

Keith Scott-Watson had been shot by the Germans in Egypt; at least, that's what the author's family had told him since childhood. After Aunt Nieves died, a strange letter, dated 1948, was found among her belongings. In it, he accused her of cheating on him with four different lovers since they met in Bilbao, after the bombing of Guernica, and embarked on a thrilling odyssey through a world in flames. What was the truth in all of it? Who were they? This is the true story of a popular British journalist who enlisted in the International Column at the start of the Spanish Civil War and a young communist woman who worked for the Basque Government, and with it, the story of all those who made up the stellar cast of a life as cinematic as theirs. Did Keith, ever the dreamer, want to write his own screenplay? Having fled to France, reality —more brutal and evocative than any fiction— leads them to Germany, the old Free City of Danzig, Rome, Athens, Cairo, and Jerusalem; they encounter spies, soldiers, adventurers, novelists, poets; and, amidst the world war and the Palestinian Nakba, they witness their tragedy unfold: a little boy, a psychiatric hospital…