Manuscript of Ashes（ISBN=） 英文原版

It’s the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco’s
dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up
in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to
his uncle Manuel’s country estate in the small town of Magina to
write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel’s, an obscure
republican poet named Jacinto Solana. The country house is full of
traces of the poet–notes, photographs, journals–and Minaya soon
discovers that, thirty years earlier, during the Spanish Civil War,
both his uncle and Solana were in love with the same woman, the
beautiful, unsettling Mariana. Engaged to Manuel, she was shot in
the attic of the house on her wedding night. With the aid of Ines,
a maid, Minaya begins to search for Solana’s lost masterpiece, a
novel called “Beatus Ille.” Looking for a book, he unravels a
crime.