Almudena Grandes returns loaded with literature for September, specifically on the 12th, when her new book will be published with the title "The patients of Dr. García". This is the 4th installment that began in 2010 with the first publication of the narrative project "Episodes of an endless war".
Following the editorial line of previous years, it will be published by Tusquets Editores, who have said that it is a spy novel and the most international "and frenetic" story of Almudena Grandes. It seems that the years in which Almudena Grandes wrote books such as "The ages of Lulú" (1989), "Cardboard Castles" (2004) or "Estaciones de paso" (2005), books that I personally liked a lot, are gone. . He has decided to bet on a genre that is also quite popular, especially among passionate readers of history and war narratives.
Synopsis «The patients of doctor García »
After Franco's victory, Dr. Guillermo García Medina continues to live in Madrid under a false identity. The documentation that freed him from the wall was a gift from his best friend, Manuel Arroyo Benítez, a Republican diplomat whose life he saved in 1937. He thinks he will never see him again, but in September 1946, Manuel returns from exile with a mission secret and dangerous. He tries to infiltrate a clandestine organization, the network for the escape of war criminals and fugitives from the Third Reich, led from the Argüelles neighborhood by a German and Spanish woman, Nazi and Falangist, named Clara Stauffer. While Dr. García allows himself to be recruited by him, the name of another Spaniard crosses the destiny of the two friends. Adrián Gallardo Ortega, who had his moment of glory as a professional boxer before enlisting in the Blue Division, to continue fighting as an SS volunteer and participate in the last defense of Berlin, lives in Germany, unaware that someone intends to impersonate his identity to flee to Argentina from Perón.
Thriller and spy novel, "The patients of Dr. García" It is perhaps the most international and frenetic story of Almudena Grandes, his most ambitious narrative, in which he connects real and unknown events of the Second World War and the Franco regime, to build the lives of characters who not only share the fate of Spain , but also that of Argentina.