Tristes Armas

Tristes Armas
Marina Mayoral

This book is about the Spanish civil war. It tells the story of Harmonia and Rosa, two little sisters who live in this period and whose parents send to Russia trying to give them a a better life because they couldn’t have it in Spain because of the war.
Harmonia, the oldest one, tells her experience and how she feels in her childhood, which was affected by the war at this time.
It is a very moving novel that shows the poverty and the suffering that there was in this period from the point of view of a child.
I really liked this book and it reminds me when my grandma told me her experience. And that’s why it is moving to me.

Irene Naranjo Gómez. 4ºB

Tristes Armas

This book was written by Marina Mayoral. It is located in Spain, Russia, Argentina and France during the Spanish civil war. Two girl, whose parents are republican, are in a boarding school in Cantabria but they moved to Leningrado (Russia) to be protected. Harmonia, the biggest sister, falls in love with León, another Spanish child. Rosa, the youengest sister, finds out that she really likes dancing and she is very good at it. They both miss their parents and their land. Their father dies during a battle, but their mother escapes to France, from there she goes to Argentina to work as a maid. There she falls in loxve with one of her bosses. She couldn’t go back to Spain because the Second World War started and the frontiers were closed. As she was in the USA and her children in Russia, they thought her daughter, Harmonia and her husband were Russian spies.

In my personal opinion, this book is very good and makes you think about the war and its consequences. It is very moving and a bit sad, but it has a ray of hope. I would reconmmend it to anyone who likes reading stories without fantasy and a bit of drama.

Tristes Armas

It is a book that I read two years ago. This book is about two sisters: Harmonia and Rosa. They have to go in a boat because of the Civil War. In that boat, there were a lot of children and also people who took care of them. Harmonia met a boy called Leon and then everything went better for her.
I really like this book because of the main charaters, Harmonia is a very intelligent girl.

Mercedes Martínez. 4ºB