True nature of "Bildungsroman" off the pages of what in our lives, a story of training in which the author, a boy whose life runs in the family farms of the Vega of Granada, sees how the murders of his father, Mayor in the city in 1936, and his uncle, the poet Federico Garca Lorca, smashing all of a sudden your world. Then begins an eleven-year exile in New York under Fernando de los Rios, and that child becomes a young American fan 'baseball and jazz. Then return to Spain, where he will be immersed in the student dissent against the dictatorship of Franco known prison and start a new exile in Germany.