“This is an exceptional book” – George Orwell
“One of the great autobiographies of the twentieth century” – New Republic
“One of the most significant Spanish prose works of [the 20th] century… Moving and dramatic” – New York Review of Books
“One of the best novels written in Spanish” – Gabriel García Márquez
‘Perhaps the most definitive and personal account of [Spain’s] history during the first four decades of the 20th century’ - Guardian
‘As essential to an understanding of twentieth-century Spain as the reading of Tolstoy is indispensable to the comprehension of nineteenth-century Russia’ - Daily Telegraph
