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The act of presenting the book Isidro, by Isabel María Abellán, edited by La Fea Bourgeoisie, will take place on Wednesday, May 17, at 8:00 p.m., in the Virginia Martínez Fernández Auditorium (in MUDEM), within the program of activities around International Day of Museums 2017, organized by the Department of Culture of the city council, and whose international motto this year is controversial Museums and stories: say the unspeakable in museums.Intervienen, along with the author, Antonio Sánchez, a member of the Athenaeum Of Molina de Segura, and Francisco Marín, editor of La Fea Bourgeoisie.
Book Synopsis
This is a true story.
Isidro is an anarchist militiaman in the Barcelona of the first moments of the Civil War.
To this city come brigadistas coming from all the places of the world;
Including Käthe, a young woman fleeing Nazi Germany.
Thus begins a story that takes place between the front of Aragon, the troubled Barcelona of 1937 and a concentration camp, that of Albatera, to which are transferred from the port of Alicante, all the people who do not manage to leave for exile to End of the contest.
During the years of the War and those who, after the defeat, came later, there are moments of solidarity and friendship, of love and also of suffering.
But this story is above all a story of continuous overcoming among people condemned to live with the proximity of death.
It was the conviction that they were going to survive that which encouraged them to help each other endless day, so that the brutal repression did not defeat them.
Isabel María Abellán, Professor of Geography and History, currently teaches at the IES Alfonso X El Sabio de Murcia.
He has published a historical novel, The Line of the Horizon, inspired by the harsh conditions of life in the Albatera concentration camp, Alicante, during the year 1939. Also two books of stories: The last winter and other stories and The disturbed silence.
With this last work she was the winner of the Third Edition of the Vivendia Internacional de Relato Prize, as well as a finalist for the Best Murcian Book of the Year, 2008.
He has participated in two literary anthologies: The heart of the narrator, the anthological work of Murcian narrators, and 13 for the 21, Anthology of New Writers.
He has also collaborated in Irreverent literary magazines and paper moons.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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