The angle of the Bruma, winner novel of the Torrente Ballester Prize 2017.

Fatima Martín, author of El Ángulo de la Bruma, XXIX Torrente Ballester Prize for Novel in Spanish.

Fatima Martín, author of El Ángulo de la Bruma, XXIX Torrente Ballester Prize for Novel in Spanish.

Last week he appeared in Coruña, The Angle of the Mist, novel winner of the Torrente Ballester Award 2017 in Spanish, from the Canary Islands Fatima Martin.

The Angle of the Mist, is a fictionalized historical novel about the first expedition that attempted to measure Mount Teide. The real story of the French expedition is mixed, as in any historical novel, with the imaginary recreation of their experiences on the island, love story included.

Synopsis:

Claude Dufour, french explorer, recibe stunned from Cuba, your card of a friend, Julien de Marivaux, dead thirteen years before in the 1724 expedition to the Canary Islands that located the Meridian of Origin on the island of El Hierro and measured Mount Teide for the first time. This is how all the secrets that united them with Emilia, the young Canarian woman who ignited the sleeplessness of both young people, were awakened.

"The mist 1724

The nails broke. The pain was choking him, but he couldn't think about it. He had to resist, grab the rocks, because they were rocks, or so he came to intuit. The darkness tightened but a lightsaber from the moon pierced the mists. The fingers squealed in injury but had to cling to the boulders. The cold of the water was metallic, it broke in anger in his face, it hit him with waves. The howls of the storm increased and there was the creak of the ship's rigging, the beat of cracked sails, the pounding of despair undone. "

The story behind the plot:

The angle of the haze is a novel based on events that occurred during the first third of the XNUMXth century. His scenes are set in the scientific expedition from France and led by Father Feuillée, who measured Mount Teide for the first time, albeit wrongly, and located the Meridian of Origin on the Island of El Hierro. A love plot it starts among its three protagonists, two French scientists and a young Canarian woman, bold and determined.

 “The documentation has been exhaustive to build their scenarios in various parts of the world and, above all, in the Canary Islands. This effort has also been useful to recreate the peculiarities of the time, with the priority of ensuring an agile writing. "

A complex aspect, and that the Torrente Ballester Prize jury has highlighted as

"The alchemy of tradition and its literary vocation through a wisely constructed past"

It has been its structural development that oscillates between two main dates: 1724 and 1737. It articulates a game of intrigues that are revealed in a dosed way and culminate in a very unexpected ending.

The novel only uses the existing language at the time in which it is developed, the first half of the XNUMXth century. As an example, the word washed it was not yet part of our language. Can you imagine writing about the measurement of a volcano, on a volcanic island, without using words like washed?

Its origin was a small two-page story in a literary workshop.

El Ángulo de la Bruma, a historical novel about the first expedition that attempted to measure Mount Teide.

What Readers Say:

The novel sold out on Amazon within 48 hours of posting.

According to the writer's words Jorge-Eduardo Benavides,

"From the first to the last page, The angle of the haze is a novel by well cared for plot which takes us to the remote Canaries of the XNUMXth century to tell us an incident based on real events: Louis Feuillée's expedition to measure the height of Teide for the first time. But after this adventure that involves real and imaginary characters, Fátima Martín, with an elegant and precise prose, tells us about another adventure…. ”.

The jury of the contest, chaired by the vice president and head of Culture of the Provincial Council, Goretti Sanmartín, and made up of Mercedes Fernández-Albalat, Xuan Bello, June Fernández, Belén Gopegui, Vicente Luis Mora and the novel award for the literary quality.

The author:

Fatima Martín is a Canarian journalist (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1968), with several published short story books to his credit. His new project, is also immersed in the history of the islands. It is not related to the previous one, nor do historical figures star it, but the author has discovered an inexhaustible source of plots in her land. This time, the XNUMXth century erupts with its industrial revolution, where the Canary Islands are an obligatory stopover in the maritime coal trade until the Suez Canal opens.

"It is a more intimate work that does not renounce intrigue or secrets"

He is also writing stories for another collective book with several authors about heroic and mythical characters that appear in the XXI century.


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