Soldiers of Salamis
First edition | |
| Author | Javier Cercas |
|---|---|
| Original title | Soldados de Salamina |
| Translator | Anne McLean |
| Language | Spanish |
| Set in | Spain |
| Publisher | Tusquets (Spain), Bloomsbury Publishing (US) |
Publication date | 2001 |
| Publication place | Spain |
Published in English | 2003 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 209 pp |
| Awards | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for 2004 |
| ISBN | 978-8-4831-0161-2 |
| OCLC | 46658419 |
| 863.64 | |
| LC Class | PQ6653.E62 |
Soldiers of Salamis (Spanish: Soldados de Salamina) is a novel about the Spanish Civil War published in 2001 by Spanish author Javier Cercas. It is composed in a mixture of fact and fiction, which is something of a speciality of the author.
The book was acclaimed by critics in Spain and was top of the best-seller book list there for many months. A film adaptation Soldados de Salamina was released in 2003. The English translation by Anne McLean won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for 2004.