‘In case one day we return’, María Dueñas’s new novel, arrives at the bookstores on March 26

The new novel by the author María Dueñas, ‘In case one day we return’ (Planet), will arrive at the bookstores next March 26 With an initial run of half a million copies, as explained by the publishing house.

The novel, which It will be published simultaneously in Spain, the United States and 18 countries in Latin America, Its protagonists are the ‘Pieds-Noirs’ of the French Algeria, off the Spanish southeast coast: a colonial territory to which Montones of Spaniards moved as emigrants or exiles.

So, Dueñas recounts the 20s of the twentieth century from Oranthe African city of Arab origin, Spanish pulse and French administration, which a young woman will escape from misery.

“Writing it has been an exciting project: From the hand of its protagonist, Cecilia Belmonte-who will also be Cecilia Lagarde and Cecilia Aubert–, I have moved and learned, I have learned, I have rebuilt a world that disappeared and I have understood some ins and outs, sometimes luminous already murky, of the human condition. Hopefully both she and her history will seduce readers again, “Dueñas said in a statement collected by Europa Press.