by Antonio Iturbe · Editorial Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408009511
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«La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz» is the historical novel by Antonio Iturbe, published by Editorial Planeta in paperback (488 pages, in Spanish).
In Auschwitz, young Dita hides under her dress the books of a clandestine library created by Fredy Hirsch. The girl protects those volumes and shares them with other prisoners, turning reading into a refuge and an act of resistance against barbarism.
The story is based on real events and this edition is the first edition, first printing, published on September 18, 2012.
A read for young people and adults interested in the Second World War and in the historical novel.
Antonio González Iturbe is a Spanish journalist, writer and professor, who won Biblioteca Breve award in 2017. He is the director of the cultural magazine Librújula and collaborator of the Spanish journal, La Vanguardia. His novel La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz/The Librarian of Auschwitz, published in 2012, has been published in 35 languages. In the United Kingdom it was the best-selling translated book of the year in 2019.
