DIME QUIEN SOY / TELL ME WHO I AM
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Autor:
JULIA NAVARRO FERNÁNDEZ
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
From book to video
Publisher:
PLAZA&JANES
Publishing Year:
2010
She developed a notable career in the world of journalism before becoming one of the best-known authors on the Spanish literary scene.
Specialising in political analysis, for more than 35 years she worked for Cadena SER, COPE and Europa Press, among other important radio, written press and television channels. Her first books of essays date from this period, dedicated to analysing the Spanish Transition and the political current affairs of the 1990s.
Her leap into literature came in 2004 with the publication of “La Hermandad de la Sábana Santa” a historical novel full of intrigue and good characters that was translated and published in almost all of Europe with great success.
From that moment on, the weight of his literary career overtook her work as a journalist.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
A gripping tale of espionage and intrigue, love and heartbreak, adventure and the history of a twentieth century torn to shreds.
A journalist is asked to investigate the life of his great-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa, a woman of whom he only knows that she fled, abandoning her husband and son shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. To rescue her from oblivion, he must reconstruct her story from the ground up, fitting together, one by one, all the pieces of the immense and extraordinary puzzle of her life.
Marked by four men who will change her forever, a businessman, a French revolutionary, an American journalist and a military doctor linked to Nazism, Amelia’s story is that of an anti-heroine prey to her own contradictions who will make mistakes that she will never end up paying for and who will end up suffering, in the flesh, the merciless scourge of both Nazism and the Soviet dictatorship.
