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Shortly before the start of the Spanish Civil War, a young man from Tangier is assigned to a disciplinary company in charge of carrying out firing squad executions in Cape Juby, in North Africa’s Spanish protectorate. The novel chronicles the protagonist’s life up until the end of 1939.
Many women have had to take on the role of men throughout history to fulfill their ambitions or simply find a place in society. Centuries of discrimination and intolerance of women led some of the most rebellious to disguise themselves as men, better to fight an intransigent, absurd and unjust society, one that denied women the same rights as men.
Ten stories by ten Galician women writers who range in narrative style, experience, recognition and other aspects, but are united by their willingness to speak up, with their own voice, placing women at the centre of the story. Writers who conjure here scenarios and stories that disprove the arguments of domination.
Alba and Marina have arranged something very special as a present for their father: a dive to a shipwreck. They don't want to miss the moment when he enters the water with the two dive instructors, Oriol and Laia, who will accompany him on this adventure. They watch as the three divers disappear beneath the waves - never imagining that this will be the last time they see them.
1940s Southern Andalusia. Anti-Franco guerrilla warfare is being conducted from the Ronda and Grazalema mountains to the Campo de Gibraltar. Largomayo joins this group
of 'maquis', led by Bernabé López Calle, also called Comandante Abril. In a turbulent and predatory time, full of violence and misery, and in a situation of permanent flight and
Juan is an explorer. Every morning he packs his napsack and heads off on an adventure. He never knows what may happen, only that it will be exciting. Would you like to go with him?