by Antonio Iturbe · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408119142
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«La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz» is the historical novel by Antonio Iturbe, published by Booket in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Auschwitz and tells how Fredy Hirsch secretly sets up a school for children. There, where books are forbidden, young Dita hides under her clothes the few volumes that form a small clandestine library. The story, based on real events, portrays reading as a form of resistance and hope.
The work was originally published in 2012; this Booket edition appeared on 8 October 2013.
For those seeking historical fiction about the Holocaust; the youth of the protagonist also brings it closer to young adult readers.
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.
