El archivo Torremediada
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Description
Spring 1933. Ángela Salazar, the protagonist of The Torremediada Archive, is a young librarian from Madrid who accepts an assignment to organize a small library in Granada and open it to the public. But Ángela’s enthusiasm—shared by so many young people amid the remarkable cultural ferment of the time—soon collides with the apathy and incomprehension of a provincial city marked by inertia and wary of the social transformations beginning to reshape Spain. The year of the first Madrid Book Fair, the first summer courses in Santander, and the first elections in which women have the right to vote is also a year of growing ideological extremism. With little genuine desire for reconciliation, political divisions fuel an alarming deterioration of civic and public life, marked by violent clashes in the streets and serious government crises. Caught in increasingly contradictory circumstances, Ángela comes into contact with a group of enthusiastic young people who join her in opening the Torremediada Archive and Library, which becomes for them a symbol of the aspirations of a society determined, once and for all, to become modern and democratic. Yet the private conflicts within her new circle and the mounting social tensions gradually converge in a series of unexpected events that will irrevocably alter Ángela’s life.
Department
Modern Languages and Cultures
ISBN
978-8494456725
Publication Date
3-16-2016
Publisher
Izana Editores
City
Madrid
Recommended Citation
Plata, Francisco, "El archivo Torremediada" (2016). Fisher Bookshelf. 61.
https://fisherpub.sjf.edu/bookshelf/61