The author of ‘El tiempo entre costuras’ returns to the South Mediterranean with 'Por si un día volvemos,' where she recounts the unknown emigrant adventure that marked a generation in Algeria under the French protectorate.
From her living room, she sees the Calle Redondilla and watches Sira Quiroga's ghostly footsteps as if they were her own. The protagonist of ‘El tiempo entre costuras’, the novel that catapulted María Dueñas (Puertollano, Ciudad Real, 60) to global stardom, lived there. It was a shock that provoked catharsis in her life. She left her path as a university professor behind, and at age 45, she began an exemplary literary career, selling more than 10 million copies.
That global success, which propelled her to the top of the charts around the world, was followed by other titles such as Misión Olvido (Mission Oblivion), La templanza,Las hijas del Capitán (The Captain's Daughters), Sira (a sequel to the first), and now Por si un día volvemos (For If One Day We Return) (Planeta), with a joint release in Spain, Latin America, and the United States of half a million copies. For María Dueñas, each work is a personal lesson that she aims to convey to the reader.
