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Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the harvest, and a devastating cholera epidemic begins among the population. Desperate Galicians, dreaming of a better future for themselves and their families, decide to leave their homeland and go to... Cuba to earn some money on the sugar plantations. But this journey prepares them for trials that their naive minds could not even imagine.
This is the true story of seventeen hundred young men who went to Cuba in search of work and ended up in slavery at the will of Urbano Feijoo de Sotomayor, a Galician settled on the island.

«Bibiana Candia managed to bring back from oblivion the history of the Galicians, who were turned into slaves in Cuba in the 19th century. Behind her beautiful prose, the voice of all those who set out on that journey can be heard, not knowing what awaited them on the other side». — Rebeca Garcia Nieto

Author: Бибиана Кандия

Printhouse: Eksmo

Series: Loft. Siesta

Age restrictions: 18+

Year of publication: 2026

ISBN: 9785042007521

Number of pages: 224

Size: 208х134х22 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 270 g

ID: 1734039

Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the harvest, and a devastating cholera epidemic begins among the population. Desperate Galicians, dreaming of a better future for themselves and their families, decide to leave their homeland and go to Cuba to earn some money on the sugar plantations. But this journey prepares them for trials that their naive minds could not even imagine.
This is the true story of seventeen hundred young men who went to Cuba in search of work and ended up in slavery at the will of Urbano Feijoo de Sotomayor, a Galician settled on the island.

«Bibiana Candia managed to bring back from oblivion the history of the Galicians, who were turned into slaves in Cuba in the 19th century. Behind her beautiful prose, the voice of all those who set out on that journey can be heard, not knowing what awaited them on the other side». — Rebeca Garcia Nieto

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