BOOKS : Meet the writer “Gabriela Ybarra” at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 4pm on 24th September 2016

Spanish Author Gabriela Ybarra

Time : 4:00 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Event Description : BOOKS : Meet the writer “Gabriela Ybarra”

About the writer: Gabriela Ybarra was born in Bilbao in 1983. She studied business administration and management at the University Pontificia de Comillas, got a master degree in marketing at the New York University, she has spent three years there. Now she is living in Madrid, works with analyzing social networks and preparing marketing studies.

About her book: Gabriela has made an eye-catching début with "El Comensal" (The Dinner Guest) a fascinating first novel about two life-changing events: the murder of her grandfather, a businessman and former mayor of Bilbao, Javier Ybarra, by the terrorist group ETA in 1977, and the illness and death of her mother from cancer 4 years ago. The author recreates these experiences in a high quality first person narrative that presents a brave reflection on death. The literary treatment of the grief of the victims of ETA and
the effect of daily death threats is particularly notable. With a clear, direct style, the author powerfully communicates the reality and contexts of these two deaths without succumbing to victimhood, including a reflection on her grandfather’s killers and the memory of sessions at the hospital with her mother during her final days. The book had attracted a lot of media and critical attention and is already in its fourth edition.

Published by Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House)

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