Vuelve el autor de El tejido de los d as con una historia basada en un acontecimiento tr gicamente real: la fuga del penal de San Crist bal
«Carlos Aurensanz se nutre de ingredientes que emocionan, atrapan y seducen . -El Peri dico de Arag n
Carlos Aurensanz firma, con el rigor hist rico que le caracteriza, una de sus novelas m s emotivas y emocionantes. El autor de El tejido de los d as rinde homenaje a todos los valientes que nos demostraron que lo m s preciado de la vida es aquello por lo que estar amos dispuestos a morir. UNA FUGA HIST RICA NARRADA A RITMO DE THRILLER 22 de mayo de 1938. Miles de hombres permanecen presos en el interior del penal de San Crist bal. Tras sus muros, la Guerra Civil destruye sin piedad la vida de un pa s... Sin embargo, ese domingo, festividad de Santa Rita, la patrona de los imposibles, algo est a punto de suceder: una fuga masiva abre una ventana a la esperanza. UNA NOVELA PARA HACER MEMORIA Esta novela arranca solo dos a os antes, en 1936, cuando la guerra separa a dos j venes enamorados. l, como la mayor a de los presos, est encerrado en el penal por motivos pol ticos; ella, en cambio, debe quedarse en el pueblo, testimonio de una guerra que crece y crece a su alrededor. Mientras ella hace todo lo posible por volver a verle, un secreto guardado durante demasiado tiempo sale a la luz y l decidir escuchar con atenci n los peligrosos rumores que recorren los pasillos de San Crist bal. Es entonces cuando empieza la cuenta atr s para una huida fren tica que solo deja dos posibilidades de futuro: la libertad o el cementerio de cristal. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe author of El tejido de los d as The Fabric of Our Days] is back with a story based on a tragic real-life event: the San Crist bal prison break.
"Carlos Aurensanz informs his work with elements that thrill, captivate and seduce audiences." - El Peri dico de Arag n
Carlos Aurensanz has written one of his most exciting and moving novels yet, with the historical rigor for which he is known. Here he pays homage to the courageous protagonists who demonstrated that the most precious thing in life is that for which we are willing to die. A HISTORIC ESCAPE TOLD IN THE STYLE OF A THRILLER May 22, 1938. Thousands of prisoners have been incarcerated in the Fort of San Crist bal. Outside its walls, the Spanish Civil War rages... On this Sunday, however, the Feast Day of Saint Rita - the saint of impossible causes - a mass escape offers a ray of hope. A NOVEL THAT SERVES AS A MEMORIAL Aurensanz's story begins two years before, in 1936, when two lovers are separated by the war. He, like most of the fort's inmates, has been arrested for political reasons; she is left to bear witness to a conflict that swiftly overtakes the country. As she pursues every avenue she can to free him, a long-hidden secret comes to light, and he begins to pay closer attention to the dangerous rumors being whispered in the halls of San Crist bal. The countdown begins to a desperate flight that leaves room for only two possible outcomes: freedom or the grave.
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