Cuéntame el olvido : Cómo los que sobrevivieron a la Guerra Civil no contaron la Historia a sus nietos

Gabriel was one of so many men whose youth was stolen by the Civil War. In 1937, he was captured by Nationalist soldiers, imprisoned, and tried for "adherence to the rebellion" based on the testimonies of eight neighbors from his village. The prosecutor sought the death penalty, and he was ultimately sentenced to thirty years in prison, of which he served four and a few months in inhumane conditions. In 1941, he was released under house arrest by the new regime and returned home in silence, confining the darkest memories of his imprisonment within the pages of a brown-covered diary. As winds of change began to blow across Spain, Gabriel rekindled the embers of his memory so that his suffering, and that of so many others like him, would not be reduced to ashes and erased forever from history. Tell Me About Oblivion is Mavi Doñate's reunion with her grandfather, Gabriel. Starting with his diary, in which she discovers that he always knew the names of those who denounced him, she embarks on a gripping historical and familial investigation that pays tribute to the men and women for whom the war did not end in 1939 and whose lives were lost in the trenches, exile, and prisons. Her search, conducted with a firm yet delicate journalistic touch, confronts us with some uncomfortable truths and warns us of the dangerous effect of collective amnesia on future generations.