The Spanish Civil War has been a source of literary inspiration almost since the moment it finished, and The Boy and the Lost Village is the latest book to draw on its history, set around the events of the Battle of the Ebro and the Fatarella mountains. But this book has a special touch, because its characters have been based on real people; local people made fictional and universal, as characters who could be any one of us and who will pull any reader into their story.