by Jesús Torbado · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401385834
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«El imperio de arena» is the novel by Jesús Torbado, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows Elisa, a girl dragged to the Spanish colony of Ifni, in West Africa, during the civil war. There she must make her way in an exotic and hostile world, dominated by the military. After Spain's abandonment of the colony in 1969 and the Green March of 1975, Elisa remains alone among the indigenous population, clinging to hope, until the accidental arrival of a young man gives her a new purpose.
Historical novel set in Sidi Ifni. It belongs to the Ave Fénix collection.
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century Spanish historical fiction and in the African colonial past.
Jesús Torbado was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel Las corrupciones. In 1976, he won the Premio Planeta for En el día de hoy, an alternate history about the Spanish Civil War. In 1993, he won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla for El peregrino.
