Havana Because there are almost no tourists – agencies have stopped offering the trip – and because they are facing one of the most serious supply crises in history, it is very likely that their colorful but dilapidated cars will not receive fuel next month – this scene is from the presentation of their latest bestseller Carmen MolaSingle and triple post entity created by Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio MerceroWho reveals his identity after taking the planet. if so ‘Creature’, The novel that inaugurated a new Carmenmolian style of historical-Gothic character, without leaving its personal gruesome or outright gory stamp, became ‘Inferno’ (Planet/Pillar), now a completely independent novel from that developed in the years after 1834. II. One year after Elizabeth’s accession to the throne.
Now the action begins in Madrid, thirty years later, with the staff no longer on the side of the monarch and with the support of the general. hit liner He conspires one after another to move to the pearl of the Caribbean, the island of Cuba under the Spanish crown, where luxury and economic power shine but have a dark side: all this wealth comes from the slave trade, which is banned on the peninsula but allowed and encouraged in the colonies. And there, in Cuba, mills where sugar cane is produced Cut to the rhythm determined by the whips, the book will be carried to the hell suggested in the title, on a route marked by nothing but Dante’s circles of the authors. He placed the Florentine violent figures in the seventh and last part of the novel, and too much violence, It is not suitable for sensitive stomachs.
XIX as a vein
Occurs between break and conversation National – a hotel where accommodation is possible Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner on honeymoon and where Lucky Luciano To pay his respects, he brought together all the mafia bosses and the streets of Old Havana, the only area renovated thanks to Unesco subsidies. You need to do a significant exercise in imagination to make the streets, which look like war-torn Beirut in the rest, match the magnificence the novel depicts. “When we wrote ‘The Monster,’ we immersed ourselves in the 19th century,” explains Jorge Díaz, who is the most interested in the historical aspects of the three. We’ve won the planet, the novel has sold, and we plan to continue by following this historical evolution over a century that wasn’t explained to us well in high school but was fascinating because of 40 coup attempts and various revolutions and revolutions. Wars against the United States and Africa. “That’s why we came to Cuba, with which Spain maintains close relations.”
They have no special relationship with the candidate, but Agustín Martínez He treasured a small book that his great-grandfather carried with him from the time he was “most lost in Cuba” during the Spanish-Cuban War: “These little books contained songs that they tried to raise the morale of the soldiers. From there we get the lyrics of some of the songs in the book. There were also traditional poems, songs and even lyrics. ‘Bayamesa’ This later became the anthem of the independence rebels.”
Semi-enslaved colonists
Although it is a work of pure entertainment, the novel uses slavery practices in its narrative that have inspired other popular novels recently. Carlos Bardem and his ‘Mongo Blanco’: “We are not writing thesis novels or raising flags, but we decided to tell a piece of history. “Then it will be up to the reader to draw their conclusions,” says Antonio Mercero, who sees a connection between African slaves and the Galicians and Asturians who worked as slaves. settlers exploited in semi-slavery -Something that happens to the protagonist- and existing human trafficking networks. “Not so long ago,” he recalls, “the bodies of almost 40 Vietnamese immigrants were found in a van in London. The journey of these unfortunate people must not have been very different from that of those slaves or the poor Galician and Asturian settlers.”
Migration had its mirages, just like today. Havana offered both riches and deceptions. Although not featured in this novel, Díaz recalls that it was common for poorer-than-muse Spanish immigrants to rent a suit as soon as they arrived and send the photo to their families, who believed in their good luck; But the lie was perpetuated as they portrayed themselves in the same suit, one after another. This serves as the Cuba of chiaroscuros. terrible location into the novel in the purest Mola style, through a series of murders containing clues. berbiqui, a cross Used with a more aggressive desire than a religious desire and with some practice persecution This would satisfy old dear Hannibal Lecter. “We couldn’t disappoint our readers,” says Díaz, who admits to being the one who likes brutality the most of the three. “We drew on Stevenson’s stories, and in particular some classic 19th-century Gothic tales, to create this atmosphere of fear that grows in the novel as the heroic couple tries to live out their love.”
They know they’ll sell big – they already have two million copies– but they’re being cautious as they consider the ending of this trilogy. They give little clue that if the time jumps between one and the other continue to be three decades, it’s easy for the third to be in ’98, a year so depressing that it would definitely be good territory for the dark Carmen Mola. . ¿Maybe in the Philippines? They do not release their clothes.