by Jesús Torbado · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422675648
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«El imperio de arena» is the novel by Jesús Torbado published in 1999 by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (319 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Spanish colony of Ifni during the Civil War, it narrates the life of Elisa, a girl growing up in a military environment. After the abandonment of the enclave in 1969 and the Green March, she approaches the indigenous population and seeks her identity amid the war in Morocco.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about the Spanish presence in Africa.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
