by Antonio Iturbe · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408237952
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«La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz» is the historical novel by Antonio Iturbe, published by Booket in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
In Auschwitz, young Dita hides under her clothes the few books that prisoners have managed to preserve, while Fredy Hirsch secretly maintains a school. Based on the true story of Dita Kraus, the novel shows how a girl turns those volumes into a clandestine library and a symbol of resistance and hope.
Limited edition of Booket's Special Collection, published on January 7, 2021; the novel originally appeared in 2012.
For readers of historical fiction and for a young adult and adult audience; the novel has been nominated for the Rhode Island Teen Book Award.
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.
