Author: Rocío Lardinois.
Tomorrow, Tuesday at 7 pm, Casa Árabe de Madrid and the publishing house Alianza present the book Los chicos tuertos, by Rocío Lardinois, in conversation with Bárbara Azaola, professor of the Area of Arab and Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of Toledo (UCLM), and accompanied by a dramatized reading of some passages from the book by actor Marco Magoa. Free admission until the capacity of the room is complete. The event will be held in Spanish. The event will be presented by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Casa Árabe’s Cultural Programs.
Cairo, 2013. Since the General took over Egypt, the capital is under curfew. At seven o’clock in the afternoon, the streets of the centre are empty, soldiers are deployed around Tahrir Square and neighbors are locked in their homes. What was the neighborhood of the revolts during the Arab Spring is suddenly silent. That’s when Ali goes out to make graffiti against the General, bypassing patrols. One night, some plain-clothes agents surprise him in the middle of a job and start chasing him. Suddenly, when he is about to be arrested, he hears the voice of an old man coming out of a alley offering him shelter.
Rocio Lardinois (1970) holds a PhD in Arab and Islamic studies. At the age of twenty, he falls in love with Cairo, a fact that causes him to give up his job in a European agency to settle in this city and live the Arab Spring. After his stay in the Egyptian capital, he returns to Madrid to collaborate with Amnesty International writing literary journalism articles on human rights violations in Egypt, a work that combines with the international consultancy on vocational training. Los chicos tuertos is his first novel. The presentation can be followed live on Youtube at this link.
Pages: 352
Publisher: Alianza Editorial
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788411486170
RPP: 20,42 €
