David Toscana found a rift in history to tell the life of a group of defeated soldiers returning to their homeland as the most terrible face of failure. However, in the midst of that dark panorama, he finds beauty, humor and dignity. “The blind army”, winner of the Alfaguara Prize of novel 2026, is a fiction that deepens in the epic of the small actions that confronts the darkness of forced blindness. In the history books, it is told that, in th…
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David Toscana found a rift in history to tell the life of a group of defeated soldiers returning to their homeland as the most terrible face of failure. However, in the midst of that dark panorama, he finds beauty, humor and dignity. “The blind army”, winner of the Alfaguara Prize of novel 2026, is a fiction that deepens in the epic of the small actions that confronts the darkness of forced blindness. In the history books, it is told that, in th…