Hijos del carbón

Children of coal is a book that will be read for years and, therefore, it could only have been written now. In this unique work, a mixture of autobiography, memory, essay and reportage, Noemí Sabugal narrates her childhood memories linked to the coal mines and embarks on a journey through the main mining areas of Spain: Galicia, Asturias, León, Palencia , Córdoba or Teruel. In each of the stages, he talks with well workers, politicians, neighbors or merchants, all of them affected by an energy transition that entails the end of a culture and a way of understanding the world. The economic and social implications of the closure of the mines will have their counterpart in the lives of all the "sons of coal", who now seek a new future and a new energy with which to get back on their feet.