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On the penultimate day of the program, the XI edition of the Historical Novel Week of Cartagena has the presence of renowned writers such as Pilar Eyre, with its imperial Passion play, and Nerea Riesco with his book The elephant ivory.
The two authors, accompanied by Jorge Poyato President presented this morning in the Hall of Caja Murcia his works that tell the story from different settings but with one common denominator: love.
First, the Bilbao Nerea Riesco, explained his novel The elephant ivory, telling a mysterious pact between a Christian and a Muslim king happened six centuries earlier, in the evocative frame of Seville in the late eighteenth century.
In this novel is shaped over time with three generations of one family that are behind the same secret, fulfilling a longstanding commitment: the celebration of a chess game.
The elephant ivory has a main stage, Sevilla.
This work, which begins with the aftermath of the Lisbon earthquake in 1755, with main topics such as chess, cultures and love.
In short, the reading of this family saga, Nera Riesco, makes the reader feel that decisions are taken with the heart.
For its part, the journalist Pilar Eyre, has spoken of his latest book Imperial Passion, set in the nineteenth century and tells the story of the Empress Eugenia de Montijo, the Spanish that appealed to Napoleon III.
This novel offers prodigious events and many adventures of Eugenia de Montijo, and tells the ambition, pride, beauty and sex appeal that made it stand out from all women in Europe.
She stressed that the work shows 98% of reality, and that only 2% are for recreation, especially in the intimate scenes, despite this language also relied on letters to Eugenia de Montijo found in Fundación Casa de Alba.
With this novel, Pilar Eyre, echoes the illustrated Eugenia de Montijo.
The Empress, who did not have much impact in his time, Eyre has repeatedly changed the world, creating among other things, asylums and orphanages.
CONFERENCE
The fourth day of the eleventh edition of the Historical Novel Week of Cartagena will be this Thursday 28 October at 19.30 pm and will feature the presence of renowned writers as Nerea Riesco, with his novel The elephant ivory and writer Teresa Viejo with his book The Memory of Water.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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