by Bibiana Candia Becerra · Pepitas De Calabaza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788417386825
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«Azucre: Una epopeya» is the historical novel by Bibiana Candia Becerra, published by Pepitas de Calabaza in paperback (144 pages, in Spanish).
Galicia, 1853: between a devastating winter and cholera, some young people emigrate to Cuba to work on sugar plantations. The journey ends in deceit: Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor sells them as slaves. The work fictionalizes that real event, which happened to some seventeen hundred Galicians, and gives voice to those whom memory forgot.
First novel by Bibiana Candia. Number 41 in the Ficción collection from Pepitas de Calabaza. Madrid Booksellers Prize 2022 and Espartaco Prize at the Semana Negra de Gijón 2022.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction with an interest in memory, emigration and slavery.
