by Marian Izaguirre · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426402318
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«El león dormido» is the historical novel by Marian Izaguirre, published by Lumen in hardback (408 pages, in Spanish).
Journalist Pablo Ferrer interviews Lucía Osman, an elderly survivor of the Rif War. Her account recalls the childhood of a mixed-race girl sold into a brothel in Melilla, her captivity among the Riffians and her enslavement in a mine, and ultimately reveals keys to an official secret about the Disaster of Annual.
Winner of the IX Premio de Novela Ciudad de Salamanca in 2005, this revised edition belongs to Lumen's Narrativa collection.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction, with a plot of personal memory and military secret set against the Rif War.
