by Juan Cobos Wilkins · PLAZA & JANES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401329036
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«El corazón de la tierra» is the novel by Spanish writer Juan Cobos Wilkins, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (240 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Riotinto mining basin at the end of the 19th century, the novel follows Katherine, granddaughter of an English doctor who worked there. Through her grandfather's memories and the testimony of an old woman, Katherine reconstructs the protests against the pollution caused by the English company and the bloody repression of 1888.
The novel was originally published in 2001; this edition is from 2007 and belongs to the Éxitos collection.
Readers of literary fiction with a historical and social background, particularly interested in the memory of Andalusian mining.
Spanish writer
