Literature from feminism: "Barne zerbitzuak" (Katixa Agirre)

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Basque

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Katixa Agirre has titled her new novel "Internal Services." The novel takes us back to the years 1937-1943. Dark times. The Spanish Civil War, and in its wake World War II: hundreds of thousands of men dying in trenches, at sea and in the air, but this is not the usual war narrative; it is about some brave women who, during those dark years, risked their own lives to save others. Indeed, having lost the war in the Basque Country, the protagonists of this novel began visiting their husbands and sons imprisoned in jails and concentration camps; they continued by inserting clandestine messages into prisons and extracting them afterwards, and from there they built a vast spy network providing the French and British with details about the Franco regime and its German and Italian allies. That was the Alava network. The author has crafted a historical novel set in a fascinating period, composed with the techniques of a mystery thriller and enriched with several gestures that invite the reader to reflect.

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