Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 6pm. Sharing of the complete work and exchange of ideas with the presence of Ahmed Dahrachi, librarian of the Abdessamad Kenfaoui Media Library, Larache (Morocco).
The Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo and the Ministry in Charge of Moroccans Living Abroad, within the framework of the Morocco in Spain 2013 Project, continue with the reading club Three with books through the work Seven cities in Africa. Stories from Spanish Morocco by the winner of the 2012 Planeta Prize, Lorenzo Silva.
In this work, the author makes a historical review in which Spanish cities on African soil become the protagonists of the story. Ceuta, Larache, Tetuan, Xauen, Melilla, Nador and Al Hoceima. Seven cities in Africa, seven unique enclaves on the northwest fringe of the continent, united or separated by borders over the centuries. Today, two of these cities are Spanish and the other five Moroccan, but in all of them there are strong traces of the natives of the peninsula, who nurtured their census and laid out their streets. This book is a journey to the years when the last meeting of the seven took place, between the second and third decade of the last century, with the conquest and pacification of the Protectorate. It is a story of struggle, but also of construction, in which attempts at understanding and mutual passions intersect. It is a journey to spaces of common memory, to a territory where the blood and the aspirations of Spaniards and Moroccans have been intermingling since time immemorial. Where we are perhaps writing, without knowing it, chapters of a future history in which the forces join forces, as they once joined forces to build these cities that are both European and African at the same time.
Lorenzo Silva (Madrid, 1966) has written, among others, the novels The Bolshevik's weakness (finalist for the 1997 Nadal Prize), November without violets, The inner substance, The urinal, The hidden angel, The name of our people, Carte blanche (Spring Prize 2004), Fierce children and the Getafe Trilogycomposed of Someday, when I can take you to Warsaw, The desert hunter y The rain in Paris. He is the author of the book of short stories The adolescent despot and from the travel book From the Rif to the Yebala. Journey to the dream and the nightmare of Morocco. In 2006 he published with Luis Miguel Francisco And in the end, the wara book-report on the intervention of the Spanish troops in Iraq, in 2008 an essay on Law in Kafka's work and in 2010 Serene in danger. The historical adventure of the Guardia Civil (Algaba Essay Prize). He is also the author of the detective series starring the investigators Bevilacqua and Chamorro, which started with The far country of ponds (Ojo Crítico Award 1998) and was followed by The impatient alchemist (Nadal Prize 2000), The fog and the maiden, No one is worth more than another, The queen without a mirror y The water strategy. With the latest instalment to date, 'La marca del meridiano', he has won the 2012 Planeta Prize.
Programming
- Days from 23 October to 9 November 2013*.
Collection of the copy.
- Wednesday, 9 October 2013*.
7.30 p.m. Lorenzo Silva presents his work Seven cities of Africa. History of Spanish Morocco with the writer Juan Eslava Galán.
- Wednesday, 11 December 2013*.
6 p.m. Sharing of the complete work and exchange of ideas, with the presence of Ahmed Dahrachi, librarian of the Abdessamad Kenfaoui Media Library in Larache (Morocco), who will exchange impressions with the members of the club.
* Dates subject to change depending on the needs of the club.