by Francesc Escribano · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429745085
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«Descalç sobre la terra vermella» is the biography of Pere Casaldàliga by Francesc Escribano, in paperback (216 pages, in Catalan), from Edicions 62.
Pere Casaldàliga arrived in Brazil in 1968 to fulfil his dream of being a missionary; the Mato Grosso jungle changed his life. The priest educated in Francoist Spain became a bishop defending Liberation Theology, threatened with death and opposed to the military dictatorship and the Vatican.
First edition published in 1999 in the Biografies i Memòries collection. The work was recognised with the Premi Gaziel. The author, Francesc Escribano, is a journalist and directed TV3 between 2004 and 2008.
For readers of biographies and for those who want to approach the figure of Pere Casaldàliga and social and religious commitment in Latin America.
