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Through Reading, Thinking, Imagining organized by the City of Cartagena, Thursday 12 mayollega to the library of the Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy the first novel of author José Joaquín Bermúdez Cartagena, Cuba The latest program.
In the event, which begins at 20.00 hours, you will be accompanied by novelist Manuel de San Juan.
The loss of Cuba for Spain represented a historical trauma of seismic proportions whose effects lasted long in popular memory.
Cuba was the American country closest to Spain by culture, idiosyncrasies and coexistence for more than four centuries, but perhaps because the memory of the wound was so painful, the void caused by the abandonment not left important literary echoes in the novels of this part of the Atlantic.
The last of Cuba comes to remedy the lack of works on what led to the loss of this Spanish island.
As a habanera round, develops parallel stories ranging from the social portrait intrigue since the mid-nineteenth century to the second half of the twentieth century.
The benchmark thread of this novel joins Spain and Cuba in a historical frame in which no shortage of grotesque features and in which bishops, diplomats, spies obligation, figureheads of the intelligentsia and other characters from varied catadura intermingle, encouraging the fictional story.
THE AUTHOR
José Joaquín Bermúdez Olivares (Cartagena, 1963) degree and doctorate in chemistry from the University of Murcia.
He has worked in research, industry and teaching, and has published numerous research papers in the field of biotechnology.
The last of Cuba is his first novel, and now working on the second part or second exit, to put the cervantino mode Rafael Sanchez, central character in the novel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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