That's what it says Luis Garcia on See Mauthausen Fiddler on the web The imaginary library. Take this opportunity to thank you for your kind words and post a review on my blog.
Apart from the cover of the book, the pictures that illustrate the text correspond to my last visit to the extermination camp in November 2009. In a couple of them is the famous staircase of death. Readers of the novel will recognize immediately.
"Andrés Pérez Domínguez is a well-known author among those who presented and won literary competitions, so it's not so strange that conquer the Ateneo novel XII Award Seville also taking over the Andalusian Félix J. Palma.
this is not the typical novel about World War II, although the backdrop of war Fundament and what happens in the plot . Nor is the classical music novel about the camps although one of its characters is five years in Mauthausen determines what happens. Not even is the long history of Nazi view
because the alleged Nazi protagonist is not. In short, once broken the topics, Mauthausen Fiddler is a remarkable exercise in literary narrative which main characters are very well designed not only credible, but near each of the events that take place in their lives bewildered.
The story is built on the basis of an interaction n four main characters. First Instead Ruben Castro, a political refugee from the war in Spain in Paris and partner Anna Cavour, a professor of German descent half French and half German. They have to add two more, Robert Bishop, American OSS spy and Fr anz Müller, German and something more. The plot moves back and forth for the lives of four characters from Paris to Berlin from Salzburg to Mauthausen and misfortunes of three of them, Franz, but especially Anna and Reuben, are endless. 
Andrés Pérez Dominguez, who had already had occasion to read The key Pinner, trace a story somewhere between a love story, a story of spies, a war story, a tragic story ... will jump from generation to generation by turning them all pro d and an argument that leads from one side to another, from one place to another, from one character to another. It is masterful the d omini of the narrative of the author and sets off on a novel with a very well laid scheme, and broken in several pieces to be assembled in an order that may seem random but it is not. objection may only have a certain drop tension in the third quarter of the same to return with a thrilling final that will reveal it is drawing zigzags to amaze.
Perhaps the character that touches our heart is Ruben, being taken to a concentration camp. Advise the careful reading of the chapter on the hardships that happens in a train car, gives the impression that the author has traveled in one of those freight cars for cattle so accurately describe what goes through the minds of those who are led to disaster. At the end of the story also surprises me 'attitude Rubén when, after being released from the field (I will not find much more) reasoning follows as shown on page 449: I should be dead. 
Not long ago I had occasion to review another book that speaks most directly to what happened in concentration camps, in this case Auschwitz. This is absolute evil José Luis Muñoz. There is much more focused on the torture and atrocities that were committed. There is, however, what happens in Mauthausen Fiddler even commented on the sentence from page 449 because it matches the Yehuda attitude Weiss, victims of the concentration camps in the story told by José Luis Muñoz.
For those who may be interested last year appeared an illustrated edition of Fiddler Mauthausen where you can follow the story with photographic accuracy. 
I will not add anything more about this narrative that the author confesses that he created from an image captured in a subway station Vienna. A couple of dancers who danced without music in their platform. Indeed, the reader discovers why the title of the novel since it is one reason that binds its characters and the plot is closed. "
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