ESCLAVOS DEL HONOR
BORRAS SAN LEON, RAUL
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Add to basketLa epopeya de los héroes del sitio de Baler. A mediados de 1898, con el inicio de la insurrección filipina y la guerra contra Estados Unidos, la guarnición española de Baler se refugia en la vieja iglesia, único edificio de piedra del pueblo, en espera de la llegada de una columna de socorro. Durante trescientos treinta y siete días resisten, incluso después de la perdida de la soberanía del archipiélago, luchando contra los rebeldes, el hambre, la enfermedad, la traición y la desesperanza. En Esclavos del honor, Raúl Borrás narra con un estilo literario de gran fluidez un episodio fundamental de la Historia de España en el siglo XIX. Sin caer en el patrioterismo, pero sin denigrar a los protagonistas, esta novela, ofrece, a través de personajes que permanecerán durante largo tiempo en nuestra memoria, una visión cercana y emocionante de los últimos Filipinas , los héroes del sitio de Baler.La crítica ha dicho sobre Esclavos del honor. Hacía tiempo que no disfrutaba tanto con una novela, histórica en el mejor sentido. Rigor histórico, emoción, intriga y magnífica escritura en la narración de esta epope.
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La epopeya de los héroes del sitio de Baler.
A mediados de 1898, con el inicio de la insurrección filipina y la guerra contra Estados Unidos, la guarnición española de Baler se refugia en la vieja iglesia, único edificio de piedra del pueblo, en espera de la llegada de una columna de socorro.
Durante trescientos treinta y siete días resisten, incluso después de la perdida de la soberanía del archipiélago, luchando contra los rebeldes, el hambre, la enfermedad, la traición y la desesperanza...
En Esclavos del honor, Raúl Borrás narra con un estilo literario de gran fluidez un episodio fundamental de la Historia de España en el siglo XIX. Sin caer en el patrioterismo, pero sin denigrar a los protagonistas, esta novela, ofrece, a través de personajes que permanecerán durante largo tiempo en nuestra memoria, una visión cercana y emocionante de «los últimos Filipinas», los héroes del sitio de Baler.
La crítica ha dicho sobre Esclavos del honor...
«Hacía tiempo que no disfrutaba tanto con una novela, histórica en el mejor sentido. Rigor histórico, emoción, intriga y magnífica escritura en la narración de esta epopeya. Gracias, Raúl Borrás San León por este regalo.»
Isabel San Sebastián, autora de La Peregrina
Raúl Borrás San León (Valencia, 1974) es alumno del curso de literatura creativa de Santiago Posteguillo y Antonio Penadés. Ha publicado una docena de relatos en distintas antologías. Entre sus autores preferidos destacan nombres tan heterogéneos como Colleen McCullough, Gisbert Haefs, Patrick O'Brian, J.R.R. Tolkien, Vladimir Nabokov, Blasco Ibáñez o Almudena Grandes.
Esclavos del honor es su primera novela, en la que trabaja desde finales de 2009. En la actualidad ultima una novela de temática contemporánea a la vez que se documenta para una nueva novela histórica. Es miembro del grupo literario El Cuaderno Rojo.
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