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Los Elegidos
The Chosen Ones
Author:
Nando López
Publisher:
Agencia Dos Passos
Language:
Spanish
Year of Publication:
2023
Pages:
512
Spanish Retail price:
0.00€
ISBN:
978-84-23363094
Genre:
Literatura
Season:
2023
SYNOPSIS

The 14th of January, 1950. Asún takes to the stage, where she performs folk songs with more cheek than talent, unaware that she will meet someone that night who will change her life: Santos is the Ateneo’s librarian and, through his cultural and university connections, a frequent collaborator with the anti-Francoist resistance. A relationship will develop between them that is as superficially conventional as it is unique under the surface. While he offers her the possibility of freedom and revolution through literature, she offers him the cover of an engagement that will turn out to be essential when, in 1954, he becomes just one of many homosexuals persecuted under the new vagrancy act. The moving nature of the protagonists’ lives and the in-depth historical research recreate an era that has never had its story told in the detail and authenticity it deserves…

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Company:
Agencia Dos Passos
CIF:
B-83873737
Address:
Calle Arrieta 14, 3°D
Contact:
Alexandra Templier
E-mail:
alexandra@dospassos.es
Website:
https://www.dospassos.es/
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