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Cartagena looks at the past six days devoted to incessant historical novel that started this morning with the stories of four first-rate writers.
Silvia Grijalva, Mary Gudin, Juan Antonio Garrido Vilches and opened the first day of the twelfth week of the historical novel, organized within the Cajamurcia Big Week, in collaboration with the Culture Department of the City of Cartagena.
Silvia Grijalva introduced the novel 'You Learn', winner Fernando Lara 2011.
Set in the 30's, is a close and personal story as it tells the story of the author's grandmother, Maria Luisa Alvarez Boehm, a woman, in the words of the author, strong and brave you could bridge the glamor and the intelligence learning to live in a society marked by convulsive ruin that marked the crash of 29.
'You Learn', revolves around love Crusaders, uncontrollable passion, deceit and stars a courageous woman who was able to reinvent itself.
Jose returns to Spain in search of the most beautiful woman in the region to be his bride.
No doubt that the choice will be Maria Luisa.
Abandoned by the love of his life, Fernando, who, after many broken promises eventually marry another, Maria Luisa agrees to marry Joseph and leave your old life behind to go with him to the island of Cuba.
At this point, Maria Luisa catches the atmosphere of freedom and sensuality, and Joe lives given to her until later, things take an unexpected turn.
Maria Luisa is reunited with Fernando in New York, where the parties, fashion and high society (by the swarming characters like Fred Astaire and Dorothy Parker) transform completely.
Maria Cartagena Gudin presented in 'The Morning Star', a novel with the trilogy 'The sun of the United Godo'.
Again a love story set this time at the time of Muslim invasion of the Visigothic kingdom and the beginning of the Christian reconquest 1,200 years ago. Cartagena, in particular the Byzantine origins of Carthage Espartaria are described in this novel, from a landing by sea to the plight of a city besieged by hunger, as has the author, who claims to reach Cartagena dazzled by the Mediterranean light that has.
'The Morning Star "tells the story of a noble Visigoth Atanarik that runs North Africa Berber troops looking to start a campaign against the corrupt kingdom of Toledo.
Remember his escape from court and prosecuted for a murder he did not commit and accompanied by a servant Basques, Alodia, which long ago had rescued a sacrifice infamous.
Later, after the fall of the kingdom in the mountains of Vindión, a former real gardingos stands at the head of the faithful, the governor Munuza.
Meanwhile, in the Pyrenees, the Basques population faces the new oppressor.
In the midst of wars and political intrigue, the love story of the servant to the noble Visigothic Alodia Atanarik unfolds like a river of peace in a chaotic moment in the history of the Iberian Peninsula.
John Vilches, presents 'The road of oblivion', Lara Award finalist 2007.
Again a love story in troubled times, the post-war Spain and Europe prior to World War II.
He played a research process that led him to discover the plans of Hitler or the United States over Spain and other political intricacies of the moment.
For example, he explains, is reflected in the moral history of the time. Problems like adultery, illegitimate children soricidio or become manifest in a society in which there was no separation or divorce.
'The road of oblivion' begins in 1942, while the Germans are bleeding in the suburbs of Stalingrad and the Allies were preparing for the invasion of Europe, the United States unleashed a fierce press campaign against Spain.
Is accused of killing Blue Division in a small Russian village.
In Madrid, the government faced the Phalangist military and analyzes the news with great concern, 'the press campaign will not, in fact, a move the U.S. government, trying to find a reason to justify a declaration of war against Spain?
Only a court-martial the captain accused of killing can prove their innocence, and Division of Spain.
The case investigation will uncover a complex web of espionage, corruption, passion, forbidden love and death in the gray Madrid after the war, in which swarm at ease both the agents of the Gestapo and the German Abwehr, and the British MI6 and the American OSS.
Finally, Antonio Garrido, presents his book "The reader of corpses', his second novel after the success of 'type'.
Garrido defines as hunters writers of stories and explains that his novel is more than just the story of how he lived the first judge forensic history.
The atmosphere of medieval China that grabs the reader will also discover amazing passages of a culture, China, which could spread through the world in a time when the West kept the books and knowledge under lock and key inside the monasteries .
'The reader of corpses' is thus the story of the first forensic history in ancient China's imperial Song Dynasty.
In ancient China, only the most astute judges reached the coveted title of readers of corpses, forensic elite, even at the risk of his life, had a mandate that no crime, that seemed unsolvable, go unpunished.
Cí Song was the first of them.
Inspired by a real person, 'The reader of corpses' tells the extraordinary story of a young man of humble origins whose passion and determination led him from his position as a gravedigger in the Fields of Death for outstanding disciple Lin'an in the prestigious Academy ming.
There, envied for their pioneering methods and persecuted for justice, arouse the curiosity of the emperor himself, who convened to track the heinous crimes, one after another, threatening to annihilate the imperial court.
An absorbing historical thriller, extraordinary document, in which ambition and hatred go hand in hand with love and death in the exotic and magnificent medieval China.
This afternoon at 19.30 hours, John Vilches, Antonio Garrido and Maria Gudin presented their respective novels Cajamurcia Cultural Center of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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