Y Dios en la última playa

Y Dios en la última playa

Author	Cristóbal Zaragoza [es]
Language	Spanish
Publisher	Planeta
Publication date	1981
Publication place	Spain
Pages	251
ISBN	9788432055478

Y Dios en la última playa (lit. 'And God on the Last Shore') is a 1981 novel by the Spanish writer Cristóbal Zaragoza [es].[1]

Plot

The story takes place in the Basque Country and revolves around the armed separatist group ETA, although this is never explicitly mentioned in the novel itself. The main character is a member of a separatist command who refuses to comply when he is ordered to execute a soldier. This makes his own group sentence him to death.[2]

Reception

José F. Beaumont of El País wrote that the book has universal value and application, because Zaragoza does not take a side in a political conflict, but condemns violence as such.[2]

The book received the Premio Planeta de Novela. It was a commercial success and eventually printed in 600,000 copies.[3]

References

1. Viamonte Lucientes, Ernesto (2022). "Terrorismo y Transición: la representación del terrorista etarra en la novela". La transición española. Memorias públicas/memorias privadas (1975-2020) (in Spanish). Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. p. 368. ISBN 978-84-1340-614-5.
2. Beaumont, José F. (16 October 1981). "Cristóbal Zaragoza ganó el Planeta con una novela sobre la vida de un miembro de ETA". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 January 2024.
3. Amell, Samuel (1996). The Contemporary Spanish Novel: An Annotated, Critical Bibliography, 1936-1994. Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 0313018197.

Further reading

• Díaz Arenas, Angel (1988). Las perspectivas narrativas: teoría y metodología (in Spanish). Edition Reichenberger. ISBN 3923593597.