Anatomia de un instante

Javier Cercas: Published January 2011. This book is an essay in chronicle form or a chronicle in essay form. This book is not fiction. This book is the anatomy of an instant: the instant in which Adolfo Suarez remained seated on the afternoon of February 23, 1981, while the bullets of the coup plotters buzzed around him in the chamber of the Congress of Deputies and all the other parliamentarians -all but two: General Gutierrez Mellado and Santiago Carrillo- sought refuge under their seats. This book is the chronicle of that gesture and the chronicle of a coup d'etat and the chronicle of some decisive years in the history of Spain. This book is an unclassifiable book. A unique book.