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This Thursday, October 4, María Dueñas will be in Cartagena presenting her latest book 'Las hijas del Capitán' (Planeta, 2018), hand in hand with the Municipal Libraries and within the programming of this quarter in Leer, Pensar, Imaginar.
He will present the author Francisco Giménez Gracia, literary critic, and the act will take place in Room B of the El Batel Auditorium at 8:00 pm, with free admission until full capacity is reached.
New York, 1936. The small lunch house El Capitán starts its journey on Fourteenth Street, one of the enclaves of the Spanish colony that then lives in the city.
The accidental death of its owner, the tarambana Emilio Arenas, forces his indomitable twenty-year-old daughters to take the reins of the business while in the courts the collection of a promising compensation is resolved.
Dejected and harassed by the urgent need to survive, the temperamental Victoria, Mona and Luz Arenas will make their way between skyscrapers, compatriots, adversities and loves, determined to turn a dream into reality.
María Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 1964) is a PhD in English Philology.
After two decades devoted to academic life, he broke into the world of literature in 2009 with 'El tiempo entre costuras', the novel that became an editorial phenomenon and whose television adaptation by the hand of Antena 3 achieved numerous awards and a spectacular audience success.
His later works, 'Misión Olvido' (2012) and 'La Templanza' (2015), continued to captivate readers and critics alike.
Translated into more than thirty-five languages ​​and with millions of copies sold around the world, María Dueñas has become one of the most esteemed authors in our country and in Latin America.
The daughters of the Captain is his fourth novel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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