BLACK MEMORY

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KDP, 2021

ISBN: 979-8774402397

230 pages

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AWARDED WITH THE PRIZE 'NARRATIVA MARÍTIMA VILA DE CAMBRILS

JOSEP LLUÍS SAVALL-2012'

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In the summer of 1845, young Gabriel Batalla, apprentice cook, enlists aboard the Indefatigable, a brig which is engaged in clandestine trading to the Spanish colonies in America. Gabriel is unaware, however, of the true nature of the cargo that Juan Cabestany, the ruthless captain of the ship, intends to transport. 

 

BLACK MEMORY is a thrilling story set in the era of transoceanic sailing, which speaks of values, of dire difficulties, of thriving; but especially, it tells a human story lived in first person, from a sensitive white young man's point of view, as a glimpse into a formidable genocide which, even today, leaves a legacy of open wounds.