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The Artieda File

The Artieda File

Dunne, Jonathan
Rei Núñez, Luís

Paperback

Series: Small Stations Fiction, Book 45

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 9543841551
ISBN13: 9789543841554
Publisher: Small Stations Press
Published: Sep 11 2025
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
People who live near Coruña railway station set their clocks, more or less accurately, according to when the Madrid Express pulls into the station like a herd of bison. The customers in Odilo Querentes's photographic studio time how late it is. There's the lamplighter Mungo Ures and the tram-driver Mamede Aneiros, the blind man Mateo Lan, the nightclub singer Trina, and Odilo's assistant, Bibiana Brea. The men discuss football while complimenting Bibiana on her looks. They listen to Enrique Mariñas, a household name in Coruña, commentating on a match at Riazor stadium, which Franco has chosen to attend, but the broadcast is interrupted by members of the National Union for the Republic calling for a national strike in defence of democracy. It is the 1950s, and there is still resistance to Franco's regime, especially among the Maquis, resistance fighters like Artieda whose aim is to undermine the regime and to bring down its leader in a game of cat and mouse that will not be without casualties. The plot thickens as the Maquis seek a way to reach Franco, who is taking his usual summer break in his native Galicia, and the reader is given a front-row seat to the action as it unfolds in different parts of the city, including its most emblematic building, the Tower of Hercules, a first-century Roman lighthouse at its northernmost tip.

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