"The Women Murdered During the Civil War Obsess Me"
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The writer returns to the novel with ‘Cosamala’, a Gothic and Lorquian story set in Andalusia in 1937. It is a free recreation with supernatural elements of the murder of the 17 Roses of Guillena. More information: Violence against women is used as a weapon of war in ‘Cosamala’, the new novel by Alana S. Portero
There are novels that are nourished by terrifying real crimes and, by narrating them, they put them back on the table to show the horror that the victims suffered. Cosamala (Seix Barral), by Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978), goes a little further, because it transcends the denunciation from the recreation and transformation, thanks to a prose of precise and disturbing beauty, of an episode of the Spanish Civil War experienced in Guillena, a munic…
After the international phenomenon of “Bad custom”, the author travels to Andalusia in 1937 to pay homage to the women who were raped by fascism in Cosamala, a Gothic, Southern and Lorquian novel that transforms the story of the 17 roses of Guillena into a cry of revenge and sorority.
After the planetary success of ‘The Bad Custom’, Alana S. Portero returns this fall with ‘Cosamala’ (Seix Barral), a coven of witches in the middle of the Civil War and a ghostly novel in which the dead are much less afraid than the living
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