With more than 50 thousand readers since its publication in 2007, 'After the sun of Cartagena' has managed to captivate its readers with its mysterious story that leads to traverse the bowels of the city of Cartagena on the eve of the Civil War.
The cycle 'Read, think, imagine', organized by the Cultural Center Ramón Alonso Luzzy in collaboration with the Department of Culture, celebrates this Thursday, April 27, at 8 pm, the presentation of the literary work 'After the sun of Cartagena 'On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, which will take place in the Adult Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana, authors of this black novel, will participate in the event, along with Emilio Hernández Molina, professor of Geography and History at the IES Los Molinos de Cartagena.
'After the sun of Cartagena' transports its readers shortly before the Spanish Civil War, when a young prostitute is killed in the neighborhood of El Molinete de Cartagena.
Seventy years later, Gines, a young lover of history and collector of antiquities, begins to investigate the case of a mysterious Roman slope that has been stolen in the Archaeological Museum of Cartagena.
In his walk he will cross his steps with Irene, a girl about to get married but bored with his monotonous life.
Helped by a beggar, the Napias, and pursued by the Debris, Ginés and Irene will be enveloped in a dangerous plot that hides an ancestral abduction in the bowels of the city.
The authors of this black novel, Ana Ballagriba and David Zaplana, met in Valencia when he studied engineering and she studied psychology.
Their shared passion for the art of storytelling led them to spin and write their first novel.
A few years later they entered the field of audiovisual creation and in 2006 they founded their own production company, Visual DNA.
A year later they would write this mysterious story
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena