This afternoon at 7 p.m., Casa Árabe presents the book Tánger, la vida soñada (Tangier, the dream life), in an act with the participation of its author, Tina Suau, in conversation with the writer Mohamed El Morabet. The event will be presented by Karim Hauser, coordinator of Cultura de Casa Árabe. Free admission until full capacity is reached. The event will take place in Spanish.
In Tangier 1972, the young Tangerine Sara Jiménez starts working in a small local export business, waiting to leave the city permanently with her family, back to Spain. He soon discovers that his American boss, based in Tangier since 1939, hides a mysterious past. His marriage to a Spanish bullfighter from the Second Republic, Enriqueta Antares, and a criminal past, lead the protagonist to find himself immersed in shady business.
To what extent will Sara be complicit, in her search for Tangier as a dream life, in the affairs of a mafioso, who at the same time opens the doors to live unique experiences?
In this novel, where autobiography and fiction are combined, Tangier becomes a key character, witness to fundamental historical events of the twentieth century, where cultures merge to give place to unique experiences between people from different backgrounds, with extraordinary adventures, both historical and vital, that few cities in the world have achieved.
Tina Suau (Francisca Suau Jiménez) was born at the end of the time when the city was known as international Tangier. He lived there until the age of 18 and then moved to Valencia with his family in the 1970s, as a consequence of Morocco’s independence. She is a philosopher and professor at the University of Valencia, where she has had a long career in management, teaching and research in applied linguistics and translation into English, French, Spanish and Catalan. She has been a visiting professor at the King Fahd Higher School of Translation in Tangier, as well as at various universities in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United States.
