Los Surcos Del Azar

Through the memories of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish Republican exiled in France, Paco Roca reconstructs the history of La Nueve, a company under the command of Captain Dronne integrated into General Leclerc's second armored division, and made up mostly of Spanish Republicans. An exciting and forgotten story about the Spanish contribution in the Second World War that has managed to win the favor of readers and critics, winning, among others, the Zona Cómic award, the prize for best national work at the Barcelona Comic Fair. and the Romics of the 2014 Rome comic book fair, and in addition, it has already been published in Italy, France and Germany.

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. No one knew then that the survivors would not leave them until eight years later, and that on the night of August 24, 1944 they would be the first to enter Paris. The battle tanks had surprising names on their noses: Madrid, Don Quichotte, Guadalajara, Ebro or Guernica. The soldiers' names were Granell, Campos, Fábregas, Royo, Pujol... They will lead the victory parade on the 26th through the Champs Elysees. However, they will not achieve their ultimate goal of seeing Spain free from Francoism.

For the writer Javier Pérez Andújar, "Los surcos del azar" 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 has to recover from our historical memory. That has also transcended it. It is necessary because it offers us something to believe in; it offers us our part of the history that was taken from us, that we have lost worrying about an alienating day to day. His book returns us to ourselves."

The author of Paseos con mi madre feels that “when they kicked out those people from Spain, they kicked out all of us who were going to descend from them. And that's why we all live in a country, in a world that we don't like. Thank you very much, Paco, for returning me to the country to which I belong”.