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by Jacqueline García (Illustrator), Silvia Mistral (Author)
Exodo, diario de una refugiada española is a biographical illustrated testimony of the spanish civil war. It may be one of the most beautiful books of the exile. Written with open wounds by people who had neither hope nor balsam. During the Spanish Civil War, in January 1939, Barcelona, the Republican capital of Spain, falls to the Nationalist forces of General Francisco Franco. In this illustrated version of Exodo, diario de una refugiada española, "Silvia Mistral", the author. Tells us about her last days in Barcelona, the desolated vision of the concentration camps in France, and the drama of a nation who had fought against fascism. It is also a story of hope as they finally board the freighter "Ipanema" which would take them to Mexico, their new adoptive country.
