Small Wars in Madrid by Ferner, Anthony

Author: Ferner, Anthony

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 14 March 2024 by Fairlight Books in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Fairlight Moderns’ series.

Paperback | 288 pages
111 x 178 x 25 | 196g

David Aguilera’s life is collapsing around him. After the catastrophic loss of the vessel under his command and a perilous trek across the Baltics to safety, he returns home to find himself unable to reconnect with his family. Frustrated by his inability to express what he is feeling, his wife Margalit moves out to stay with friends, taking their children with her.As David anxiously awaits the official inquiry into his conduct, he turns to those who are most important to him – his closest friend and comrade Marce; his Catholic adoptive mother; his Jewish birth mother; and Margalit, herself Sephardi Jewish. Faced with the prospect of losing his family altogether, he must confront his conflicting identities and faiths and decide the man he wants to become.