BOOK / THE SOLDIERS. Ugo Pirro

LITERATURE

World War II, Italian occupation of Greece. A very peculiar mission breaks the hallucinatory monotony of military life for a young lieutenant stationed in Volos. He must go to Athens to collect a group of Greek prostitutes and deliver them to the Italian troops stationed at different points on the Hellenic Peninsula. Thus begins his journey through a Greece that is both friendly and hostile, beautiful and disfigured by war and famine. It is not only a geographical itinerary but also an internal one, a formative journey that the young soldier undertakes as a child and grows into a man, having experienced, in the space of a few days, love, compassion, shame, resentment, and remorse.
First published in 1956, The Soldiers is an invaluable account of one of the most grotesque chapters in the warlike history of Fascist Italy. But it is also a moving novel woven around the opposing and intersecting experiences of love and death.

Title: Las soldadesas
Author: Ugo Pirro
Pages: 164
Size: 14 x 21 cm
Weight: 250 grams
Genre: Literary
Language: Spanish
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Altamarea
Year: 2021