"My name is Soledad. I was born in this country where the body dry, with backwaters unable to hug and great hands useless. "
These are the first words from the novel by Carole Martinez extracts of which will read Thursday, November 19 from 20.30.
Abstract:
the heart of Spain, at the end of nineteenth century, Frasquita receives from his mother a box containing a gift for the person who opens it. Frasquita This proves to be the one to sew. She wipes the sublime, but also sews things together, the men resumed frayed. From Indeed, it has a reputation in his village a magician or witch. Played and lost her husband at a cockfight and condemned by the village to the adultery, Frasquita is doomed to wander through Andalusia that peasant revolts begin to fire and sword, followed by her children also provided - or burdened - of mysterious gifts ... Fleeing
ever southward, spreading behind her love and human folly, it will stop finally in a village in North Africa. There his talent as a seamstress and spells around his family will find the newest, Soledad, a narrator, and the hand of appeasement ...
This tale, sometimes wonderful, sometimes fantastic, is an ode to maternal love and brotherhood, to which we adhere with the unique style of C. Martinez and her characters that she was able to make complex and engaging.
Preview:
'Listen, my sisters! Listen to this rumor that fills the night! Listen ... the sound of mothers! Sacred things whisper in the dark kitchen. At bottom of old pots, in the smell of spices, recipes and magic meet. The silent sorrows of our mothers are gagged their heart. Their complaints have increased in soups: tears of milk, blood, tears spicy, salty, sweet. Unctuous tears at the palace of men! '
The heart sewn in the press:
Ouest France - Georges Guitton (May 28, 2007)
"This gives a magnificent novel series of amazing stories and characters (...)."
Nouvel Observateur - Anne Crignon (May 22, 2008)
"Well above the fray, Carole Martinez has an incredible talent. A style that enchants from the first pages, and a hero driven by his destiny to end Baroque heart of Spain's nineteenth century. "
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