Waiting for Robert Capa (25 page)

I would have liked to have reflected the intensity and complexity of those convulsive years with the skill and passion that Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David Seymour transmitted in their photographs. But I lack that kind of talent for working a camera. So I was left with no other choice but to attempt to travel the distance between images and words with my own weaponry and in the way I know best. Each does what they can.

Lastly, nobody is the same person when they start a novel and finish one. In a certain sense, as with any war experience, this book also represents a place of no return in my life as a novelist. There's a part of me that will forever remain in those violent war years of bombarded dreams in which Gerda Taro awoke tender and in pajamas.

About the Author

SUSANA FORTES
is a native of Spain. Her novels have been translated into almost twenty languages, and she is the winner of numerous literary awards, including the Premio Nuevos Narradores, the Premio Primavera, the Premio de la Crítica, and, for
Waiting for Robert Capa
, the Premio Fernando Lara. She is a regular contributor to
El País
as well as various cinema and literature magazines.

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Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover photograph by Robert Capa © International

Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

WAITING FOR ROBERT CAPA
. Copyright © 2011 by Susana Fortes.

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EPub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780062101600

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