Miguel Ángel Carmona del Barco, David Zaplana, Ana Ballabriga and Lucía Extebarria will present their latest novels at the Josefina Soria Library
The new cycle ‘Literature and violence against women’, promoted by the departments of Culture and Equality of the Cartagena City Council, will feature prominent speakers next week. On Wednesday, March 9, Miguel Ángel Carmona del Barco (Monesterio, 1979), author of ‘Alegría’ (Alrevés, 2021), a novel awarded with the XXIV City of Badajoz Novel Award, which will be presented by the best-selling writer María Dueñas (‘El tiempo entre seams’, ‘Sira’). On March 16, at 8:00 p.m., in the same place, the telecommunications engineer David Zaplana and the psychologist Ana Ballabriga, acclaimed crime novelists, will talk about ‘The Eternal Desire’, the winner of the Auguste Dupin Crime Novel Contest , in an act presented by María José Mercader, coordinator of the Department of Equality of the Cartagena City Council. On March 23 it is the turn of Lucía Etxebarria, who will bring her latest work, ‘Selene and the four elements’, to Cartagena, in an act conducted by Ana Ballabriga.
In Miguel Ángel Carmona’s novel, Alegría does not want to be like her mother. She has grown up on the brink of an abyss and clings to her studies and her work so as not to fall into it. But Mario arrives, raised on the basis of blows and humiliations, so strong and at the same time so fragile. He hugs like a rosebush, which smells good and burrows into the skin. At the first prick, Alegría tries to get away, but the rosebush has turned into a bramble. She doesn’t know how to go out anymore.
In the Activity Reservation tab of the Culture website of the Cartagena City Council, seats can be reserved for these scheduled events.