Fuerte

Fuerteventura is sold to tourists as a holiday paradise. The author, who made the island his home, finds a darker story. Its first people, the Guanches, did not survive the colonisers; conquistadors stopped here on their way to the Americas and pirates came ashore. It was always a place of exile: Miguel de Unamuno was banished here in 1924, the German Gustav Winter built a small kingdom where Nazis were welcome, and Franco's regime set up a penal colony for homosexuals. Surrounded by water that both feeds and threatens them, islanders see life and death differently.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

299 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain

First published

2020 by Wydawnictwo Czarne

Author's age

37 when first published

ISBN

9788381910613 (original)