Desde el ojo del huracán

"How many books are there that talk about books and bookstores? Some are really fantastic, however, how few are the booksellers who have dared to become narrators of their own experience. What story would they tell? This, which is mine is a description of the landscape narrated from the eye of the hurricane: a history of bookstores, a personal journey that would be incomprehensible without literature". This intimate yet universal work sheds light on how these extraordinary objects have changed humanity and each one of us. Thus, the author proposes a journey that begins with the images of the prehistoric caves and the clay tablets, which passes through the Library of Alexandria and reaches the present. Marina Sanmartín describes an odyssey that is drawn in three concentric circles: the life trajectory of a passionate reader, bookstores today as spaces of resistance and care, and the universal history of the latter. A flagrant proof of the indestructibility of the book as an object and of the narrative as a lifeline.