Event 2
Rafael Navarro de Castro in conversation with Sara Jaramillo Klinkert
Econarratives
Teatro Santamaría
Rafael Navarro de Castro (Spain) will talk to Sara Jaramillo Klinkert about his most recent novel. Navarro de Castro has a degree in Sociology and a diploma in Rural Development. He lived in Madrid, working in the film and television industry for years before he decided to leave it all and move to Monachil, a village on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains in southern Spain, where he works in traditional agriculture, raising hens, as well as in ecological activism. After his novel La tierra desnuda, he presents Planeta invernadero, a novel in which Sara, an agricultural engineer from Madrid, decides to make a change to her life when she turns 40. With her work as a central thread, she encounters conflicts and contradictions, her desire to live and enjoy life, a world of workers in the shadows, an unbridled economy, edible technologies, old farmers alienated from their ancestral knowledge, young people who turn their back on the future, and tomato plants that grow various centimetres each day and give fruit all year round. Stories and characters that will change readers’ ways of understanding what they consume, what they eat and how they live
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
