Writer manual fresno presents his new novel in Madrid this Thursday’calligrapher of Lodz‘ edited by Adarve, who takes the Holocaust through the eyes of a child as a background. It is a novel of high historical rigor that struggles to overcome forgetfulness through its protagonist, the little boy. Oscar Steinand his vision of a time hard to forget.
Jerusalem. year 70 AD Jewish Captain. Titus’ legions destroy Solomon’s Temple, leaving the city in ashes. The diaspora began… Two thousand years later, the flirtation of two Jewish students at Stanford University serves to learn the story of their grandparents, Oskar and Karl, and how they both try to rebuild their lives after the horrors of Nazi captivity. the murder of loved ones. But those who ignore their past are doomed to repeat it, and with the help of Esther, who witnessed what happened, Oskar fights to keep the memory of his parents and brother Samuel alive.
From his perspective, the story draws us to the ‘night of broken glass’ in Munich in 1938; invasion of Poland; life in the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos; The controversial role of the Jewish Police and Judenrate; Dachau concentration camp in Bavaria; arrival of refugees in Mexico…; Along with the efforts of a handful of settlers for the establishment of the State of Israel. In short, the struggle for life in the light of the eyes of a child who watches without understanding how the world collapses around him.
manual fresno (Madrid, 1970) State auditor-auditor, economist and director of publicly traded company ADIF. He participated in the story books ‘I Have Something To Tell You’ (2018), ‘A Ruined House’ (2020) and ‘What To Do When You Let Me Go’ (2022), edited by FIDE and edited by Almuzara, Lorenzo Silva, Antonio Colinas, Zoé Valdes, Along with writers like Teresa Viejo, Amelia Noguera or Mario Garcés. ‘Lodz Calligraphy’, which won the second prize in the 2021 BerjArte Competition, is the first novel that takes us through the eyes of little Oskar into life in the ghettos of Germany and Poland during World War II. He is currently writing his second work, a tale of love, jealousy and intrigue, within the framework of the Green March in the Spanish Sahara in 1975, a few days before Franco’s death.
The presentation of this novel will be held at 19:30 at the NH Collection Eurobuilding hotel in Madrid, with a show attended by Patricia Weisz Friedman, president of the Violeta Friedman Foundation, and her assistant, academic, jurist and counselor, and writer Mario Garcés Sanagustín.