Maddi y las fronteras

One autumn afternoon in 2021, Edurne Portela receives a call offering her a series of historical documents related to María Josefa Sansberro, known as Maddi, born in Oiartzun in 1895 and who ran a very popular hotel in the 1930s. at the foot of Mount Larrún, on the border between Spain and France. At first glance, Maddi already reveals herself as a disturbing woman full of contradictions, who has crossed many borders, both physical and moral: smuggler and Mugalari, fervent Catholic and divorced, childless woman and mother, servant of the Nazis and agent of the Endurance. The author accepts the challenge of getting fully into those documents and, from there, imagine Maddi: her voice and her gaze, her desires and desires, her motives and reasons, her affections. This is how Maddi and the borders are written, a novel about a woman who did not conform to the conventions of her time, who crossed all the red lines, a woman who did what no one expected of her.