by Josefina Aldecoa · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466331630
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«Historia de una maestra» is the novel by Josefina Aldecoa, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Gabriela earns her teaching degree in 1923 and works in rural schools in Spain and Equatorial Guinea. Narrated from memory, the novel spans the twenties, the Republic, the October Revolution and the civil war, showing poverty, ignorance and oppression, and the role of teaching as a struggle to educate a country.
«Historia de una maestra» opens the trilogy «Trilogía de la memoria» and was originally published in 1990.
Reading for those seeking a historical novel about Spain in the twenties and education as social transformation.
Josefina Aldecoa, originally known as Josefa Rodríguez Álvarez, was a Spanish writer and teacher born in León. She was married to the writer Ignacio Aldecoa, whose surname she adopted for her own literary career after his death. Josefina Aldecoa was the founder and Principal of the Colegio Estilo from 1959 until her death in 2011. She died on 16 March 2011 in Cantabria, due to respiratory problems, at the age of 85.
