Pasión por vivir

Through the eyes of his sister Carmen, the lawyer Manuel Medina immerses us in the rural world of post-war Spain. Carmen's life was not easy, especially her childhood: motherless and with a father who returned from the war after fighting on the losing side, she had to face hunger and hard work. A portrait of life in the Andalusian countryside throughout the 20th century: the humility of its people, their customs and dreams. Carmen's life is intertwined in this story with that of the author himself: from her humble origins, in her hometown, where she was happy, and her tireless struggle to get ahead, to running one of the most important law firms in Spain and Latin America. Manuel Medina, a self-made man obsessed with not forgetting his roots, invites us to revisit, with large doses of emotion, the endearing stories of the past and the sometimes harsh but hopeful realities of the present, marked by the pandemic. A vindication of the weight of the memory and the emotion of all those small great stories that make up our History in capital letters.