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The Caravaqueño writer Luis Leante presents his latest novel, 'Annobón', tomorrow, Wednesday, February 15, at 8.30 pm, at the Casa de la Cultura 'Emilio Sáez', within the 'Meetings with author' periodically celebrated by the Library Municipal Public.
During the event, organized by the editorial HarperCollins, with the collaboration of the Department of Culture of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz, the writer will talk about his latest publication;
"A fascinating blend of journalistic reporting and historical fiction that portrays the less idyllic face of Spanish colonization in Africa and the mechanisms of Franco's repression in postwar Madrid, and delves into the private lives of the characters who were trapped in Those dark historical moments. "
Leante's latest novel starts with the research that a writer is carrying out following the discovery of a mummified woman's corpse in a locality of Colliure, in the south of France.
From this news, the narrator reconstructs facts that occurred in Madrid and Guinea in the 30s and 40s of last century: the night of November 14, 1932 Restituto Castilla, Civil Guard sergeant, murdered with a A barbera knife to the Governor of Guinea when he visited Annobon, an island of 17 square kilometers, three days sailing from the capital, where Castile had founded a utopian community that was governed by the principles of the Republic.
Once the sentence is fulfilled, the lawyer Pedraza will cross his path and the lives of both will enter a vertiginous succession of adversities that will affect all those around him.
Jealousy, dignity, madness, lies and obsessions in a love triangle in which fear and love are often confused.
The Caravaqueño writer, supported in the summary of the trial that was made to Castile, and found in the Historical Archive of Las Palmas, tells the story following the testimonies of two fictional characters, the daughters of the sergeant and his defense lawyer, the Captain Pedraza, who offer two opposing points of view on the facts.
Luis Leante graduated in Classical Philology at the University of Murcia and for a long time exerted a vocational role in teaching Latin in academies and rural institutes.
To the 20 years it published its first novel, 'Road of red Thursday', a rural drama that develops in the Spanish postwar period.
In 2007 he won the Alfaguara Prize for his novel 'Mira si yo teréré'.
By then he had already published a dozen books, but this recognition was the one that gave him international fame and consecrated him as a writer.
He has also written books on juvenile stories and literature, and is the winner of the XXIV edition of the Youth Edebé Prize with 'Flee without looking back'.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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