WHO IS ELIA BARCELÓ? A SMALL BIOGRAPHY

Elia Barceló was born in Elda, Alacant, Spain, in January 29, 1957). She is Writer.
 She studied Anglogermanica Philology in the city of Valencia in 1979 and Spanish Philology at the Universities of Alacant and Innsbruck (in Austria). She received his doctorate in the latter in 1995. Since 1981 lives in Austria, where she teaches Hispanic literature.
It is considered one of the most important writers in the Spanish language, the genre of science fiction, along with Angelica Argentina Gorodischer and Daina Chaviano Cuban. The three formed the "female trinity of science fiction in Latin America".
Part of his work has been translated into French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and Esperanto. Since 1997 he also writes young adult literature.
She is a member of honor of Nocte, the Spanish Association of Horror Writers.

REFERENCE SOURCE: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Barcel%C3%B3

 

OUR NOVEL OF REFERENCE: "LAS LARGAS SOMBRAS"

The students participating in the project, should read the novel "Las largas sombras" ("The long shadows") by Elia Barceló

ARGUMENT / SUMMARY The long shadows 
Rita just found her friend Lena dead in the bathroom of his home. From the outset, the police ruled out suicide. This is apparently a murder, and although no one can quite figure out the motive, the victim's friends become the prime suspects. All of them, who just turned 50, are known since adolescence and share a terrible secret buried deep in his past. Gradually the friends will have each other's misery and obsessions, his unfulfilled dreams, hopes, and take the reader to the year 1974, when he made a trip to prom with other partners of the same class and will lead the point starting from a nightmare that will never wake up. With a skillful and very personal mix of genres, The long shadows of the book goes beyond police, the portrait of an era or the nostalgic sentimentality of its protagonists. What is here pound is a battle to the death with the life that has been lived.

Source: http://www.acerliteraria.com/L/root/elia_barcelo_libros.html