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The Casino Santa Isabel
Author:
Gemma Freixas
Publisher:
Raval Edicions S.L.
Language:
Catalan
Year of Publication:
2013
Pages:
208
Number of editions:
1
Spanish Retail price:
16.00€
ISBN:
978-84-7588-429-5
Genre:
Literatura
Season:
2014
SYNOPSIS

On the day following the proclamation of Independence in Equatorial Guinea, in a black neighbourhood of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando Po, someone finds the body of Pablo Montesinos, one of the ringleaders of the Spanish community in the city. It looks exactly like a natural death, but the Civil Guard officer in charge of completing the relevant paper work begins to follow up leads… From this opening, Casino de Santa Isabel recreates the last days of the Spanish presence in Guinea and the disastrous decolonisation process. A story of irresponsible political decisions, economic interests, discrimination between blacks and whites, men and women… but also of uprooting, exile, truncated love affairs and a lost paradise.

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Company:
Raval Edicions S.L.U.
CIF:
NIF B-64.312.044
Address:
Pedro i Pons, 9-11, 11ª planta, porta 1ª i 2ª
Contact:
Pilar Lafuente
Phone:
93 492 82 44
E-mail:
plafuente@planeta.es
Website:
www.grup62.com

 

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