Valencian literature that unites Spain and Argentina. The writer Mayte Aparisi covers the life of the South American country through the family of a Lebanese immigrant.

The Valencian journalist and now also a writer Mayte Aparisi, says that her first novel 'Los ruidos de la noche' (La Cala Books) took twelve years to see the light of day. Aparisi explains that she came to literature as if it were a kind of lifeline in the face of a tragedy suffered, and that when she created the story, saw that she had to delve into a plot that unites Spain with Argentina through a migrant family with a curious existence which, evidently, was worthy of a novel.

The story leads us to the trip of a Lebanese to Argentina at the end of the 19th century. «It was a friend who told me about the life of her great-grandfather, who was a Catholic living in Lebanon but had to emigrate because his religion was persecuted.

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