by Antonio Iturbe · Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408217756
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In the heart of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where books are forbidden, a young woman named Dita hides under her dress the fragile volumes of the world's smallest clandestine library. Amidst the horror, Dita offers us a lesson in courage by refusing to surrender and clinging to the desire to live and read, demonstrating that even in that terrible place, "opening a book is like getting on a train that takes you on vacation." This thrilling novel, based on real events, rescues from oblivion a moving story of cultural heroism.
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.
