Los surcos del azar

Astisendo Grupo Editorial Los Surcos Del Azar Edición Ampliada Comic. Back with the Spaniards who liberated Paris from the Nazis. After having sold more than 49.000 copies in Spanish alone, Paco Roca selects the most outstanding information that has reached him over the course of five years from people related to the story, in this expanded edition with 24 pages of extras including texts and drawings, on the verge of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the French capital. Through the memories of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish republican exiled in France, Paco Roca reconstructs in The Furrows of Chance the story of La Nueve, a company under the command of Captain Dronne integrated into the second armored division of General Leclerc, and made up mostly of Spanish Republicans.A passionate and forgotten story about the Spanish contribution in World War II that has managed to win the favor of readers and national and international critics, of which more than 49.000 copies have been sold in Spanish, and has already been published in six other countries:France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Portugal and the USA.Most of the men who made up La Nueve were under 20 years old when in 1936 they took up arms for the first time to defend the Spanish Republic.None of them knew then that the survivors would not abandon them until eight years later, and that on the night of August 24, 1944, they would be the first to enter Paris.The tanks bore surprising names on their snouts:Madrid, Don Quixote, Guadalajara, Ebro or Guernica.The soldiers were surnamed Granell, Campos, Fábregas, Royo, Pujol.They would lead the victory parade on August 26 -of which the 75th anniversary will be celebrated this year- along the Champs Elysees.However, they would not achieve their ultimate goal of seeing Spain free from Francoism.Five and a half years after the appearance of The Furrows of Chance -winner, among others, of the Zona Cómic award for the best national comic of 2013, the best national work of the Barcelona Comic Fair 2014 and the Romics Grand Prix of the Rome comic fair 2014-, with the valuable information that has been reaching the Valencian author, he has embarked, in close collaboration again with the American Hispanist Robert Coale, on the task of revising the comic and extracting the highlights of that material.Over 24 extra pages, new texts are included -from, among other voices, the mayors of Paris and Madrid, Anne Hidalgo and Manuela Carmena, respectively-, sketches, photos, new drawn pages, and even a letter from one of the protagonists of this capital work by Paco Roca.For the writer Javier Pérez Andújar, The furrows of chance goes beyond being formidably drawn and endowed with an overwhelming narrative capacity.Paco Roca has transcended it.He has written a necessary book, and not only because of what it recovers from our historical memory.That has also transcended it.It is necessary because it offers us something to believe in. tradeinn Techinn