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No more meetings with author and begins the period of deliberation. Isaac Rosa was the last finalist Young Reader Prize Mandarache to visit Cartagena.
In less than 24 hours has been met with some 800 students to chat with them in his novel The Land of Fear: Cajamurcia yesterday, this morning, in the IES Jiménez de la Espada and in the auditorium of the UPCT.
Building on the theme of his book, fear, Rosa has urged the mayor of Youth, Ruth Collado, not to fear the cuts being made ​​now in government and fighting to keep Mandarache Award.
According to the writer, this is the real activity to promote reading.
Mandaraches should grow throughout Spain.
One of the Most liked the Sevillian writer who has had meetings so far with young readers is how they have interpreted the fears that Rosa wanted to convey with his book.
Although the country of fear wrote some years ago, over time the novel is winning now. A few years ago one could speak of the society of fear and a feeling of vulnerability and that accumulation of fears with which we lived when he began XXI century.
Today we find that those fears have multiplied, explained the author.
Following the visit of Isaac Rosa opens the period of deliberation and debate in which 1,500 young people participating in this initiative of the Youth Council must decide which book to those who have read more liked.
Voting will be from 16 to 19 ly opened in May, the winning authors will return to Cartagena to collect their prize.
Also, young readers can participate in the
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microstories contest, the illustration, literary criticism, the award for best teaching team-building and reading awards also presented at the gala in May.
THE BOOK
The country of fear is an imaginary place where everything would come true fear.
Carlos knows how would be his, live scared.
Their fears are very common, being beaten, being assaulted, they enter your home while you sleep, your child is abducted, but also fears the aggression of its neighbors, violent teens, the poor, to strangers.
Fears known to be exaggerated, even unfounded.
And yet, can not be avoided.
His fear, hitherto secondary, will take center stage when becoming involved in a conflict situation: a small incident in the college of his son, who could be solved simply, is complicated by their inability to make decisions.
Carlos will then begin a headlong rush where every lie, every misstep, you will feel increasingly threatened.
The country of Fear explores the environmental origin of that fear.
This haunting and intense novel discover how to build and spread fears, and the weight of such fiction are in the range of a fear that ends up being a form of domination, which leads us to accept abusive forms of protection and defensive responses make us feel more vulnerable.
THE AUTHOR
Isaac Rosa (Seville, 1974), writer and columnist, has published the novels The malamemoria (1999), later reworked into another bloody civil war novel!
(Seix Barral, 2007), and the vain yesterday (Seix Barral, 2004), which won in 2005 with the Romulo Gallegos Prize, the Prize and the Prize Eye Critical Critics Andalusia and the boys play Goodbye ( 1998), the narrative world noise (1998) and several stories that have appeared in books.
He is also coauthor of the Kosovo trial.
The humanitarian alibi (2001).
Translated into several languages, his novel The vain yesterday was filmed shortly by Andres Linares under the title Life in red.
The country of fear, has received the José Manuel Lara Foundation Award for best novel of 2008.
He has just published The Invisible Hand (Seix Barral, 2011) with a great reception from the critics.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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