Uncertain Glory

Set during the Spanish Civil War, Joan Sales’ thrilling epic that has drawn comparison with the work of Dostoevsky and Stendhal, Uncertain Glory is a homegrown counterpart to classics such as Homage to Catalonia and For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Sales was a combatant in the civil war, and like Orwell and Hemingway distilled his wartime experiences into a timeless story of thwarted love, lost youth and crushed illusions.