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The Twelfth Week of Cartagena's historical novel curtain closes this afternoon after five days of intense literary cycle.
Lola Artacho, author of Josephine Pierre: The secret love of the Duke of Alba, Vanessa Montfort author of Mythology of New York, and Mary Zabay, author of The shoe of the language broken, are the latest authors to present their works at the Center Cultural Cajamurcia.
The three stories are set in completely different eras and cities, but the stories are united by the passion of its writers. Research and inspiration are the keys to becoming a better writer of historical novels, says Lola Artacho.
His novel, Josephine Pierre: The secret love of the Duke of Alba, tells the story of a woman who puts the world by storm.
It is set in Seville in the mid-nineteenth century.
Josephine Perrier, a beautiful, intelligent 18 year old dreamer, wants to marry her cousin Maurice Girau, owner of some articles of great prestige in France.
Wishing to leave behind the rigid morality of Seville, which feels trapped, Josefina expected time to go and stroll through the Parisian streets in a carriage or attend the glamorous parties of the French high society.
However, his life changed forever the afternoon you know James Fitz-James Stuart, Duke of Alba XV.
Fifteen years her senior, married with two children, attractive and appealing, both romances begin one of the most talked about and talked about the time
For Vanessa Montfort, a writer is distinguished by his gaze, aware of what is happening around and capturing images, moments and conversations to transform them into novels.
His work in New York Mythology is his third novel which has won the ATENEO.
In the words of the author, is a journey into the recent history of New York, a city crossing characters and myths that make it the largest city in the world dreamed of and desired.
"All I ask is a chance. This is a bet on one hand. If I win, if I can convince time, you will not read even one page of this book. But let me play all my letters and my rules. Thus begins Daniel Rogers told her story, a player infiltrated by police in New York in the world of illegal gambling to investigate the gruesome murders of the children of Azar, a murderous organization that plays the lives of their victims to the cards. But events will suggests unexpected when one comes your way Laura, an unsuccessful painter came to New York from somewhere in Europe with the need for an adventure in the Big Apple to change your life forever. Among them will be born a strange attraction when they discover that their destinies are joined by New York Mitoligía, a novel of murders that seem to be playing in the real world. Through this mysterious book and with the help of a number of fascinating characters, begin a career vertigionasa, intrigue to intrigue, to ascertain the identity of the murderers. A dangerous game where, boundaries between fiction and reality threatens to break forever.
According to Maria Zabay, two things are required to be a writer: a history in the head that will engage the reader and the skill to tell it, something that is earned with hours and hours of reading.
Zabay is the author of the broken shoe of the language, the story of a young German recruited as a spy by the Nazis during the years before the outbreak of World War II.
The young Erhard, German wealthy family and close friend of Heinrich Himmler, is intended as a Nazi spy in Poland.
This will be run by a Jew, circumcision practiced reaching and will delve into a world of strategies, manipulation, betrayal and deceit that will end in the least expected.
His association with the National Socialist German Workers Party and its subsequent mission allow the reader to know in depth the tricks that brought Hitler to power and reveal the cultural and socio-political situation in Poland before it was invaded by Germany and World War II broke out. The broken shoe of the language is also a touching love story between Jewish and Aryan Erhard Helena, belonging to world faces in the historical moment more hostile.
Rigorously documented even in the smallest details of everyday life, this gripping novel reveals to the reader what happened and came together for a mediocre and frustrated Austrian could ever win an election, and would lead to Germany and the world at large disaster was the Second World War.
The last day of the Historical Novel Week XII will be at 19.30 hours Cajamurcia Cultural Center, with the presence of Vanessa Montfort and Jesus Maeso de la Torre, author of The dome of the world.
Both receive the Cartagena City Award 2011.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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