by Antonio Iturbe · Columna CAT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466415392
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«La bibliotecària d'Auschwitz» is the historical novel by Antonio Iturbe, published by Columna CAT in paperback (512 pages, in Catalan).
In 1944, in the family camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, some prisoners gather eight books and create a clandestine library. Dita Adlerová, a teenager, guards those volumes, which serve to instruct and protect the children of the camp; reading is for her a refuge and a form of resistance.
This edition belongs to the Clàssica collection of Columna CAT; the work was nominated in 2020 for the Rhode Island Teen Book Award.
A read for lovers of historical fiction and of young adult stories about the Holocaust and the power of books.
Antonio González Iturbe is a Spanish journalist, writer and professor, who won Biblioteca Breve award in 2017. He is the director of the cultural magazine Librújula and collaborator of the Spanish journal, La Vanguardia. His novel La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz/The Librarian of Auschwitz, published in 2012, has been published in 35 languages. In the United Kingdom it was the best-selling translated book of the year in 2019.
