"Elena Fortún is one of Spain's foremost and unique writers of the Spanish Civil War period. Unique because of her perspective, a determination to describe life from the vantage point of those whose voices are rarely listened to or even acknowledged: women and children. Virtually all of Spain is familiar with her protagonist Celia, and the series of stories portraying the life of this sassy girl in mid-twentieth-century Spain, particularly her Celia in the Revolution dealing with the Civil War. But few are aware of this wonderful previously unpublished auto biographical novel brilliantly translated by Jeffrey Zamostny, Hidden Path, written from exile in Argentina."–Michael Ugarte, professor emeritus of Spanish literature at the University of Missouri-Columbia and author of Africans in Europe