"Azucre is a journey into horror, and told so well that you don't want to leave it."—Juan Tallon

«There are lives whose destiny clearly shows the misery of the human being. They are almost always humble people, so we rarely know of their existence. Luckily, Bibiana Candia has had the success of rescuing from oblivion the history of the Galicians enslaved in Cuba in the 19th century. Behind her beautiful prose, you can hear the voice of all those people who undertook that journey without knowing what awaited them on the other side. More than being read, Azucre is heard.”—Rebeca García Nieto

"Azucre is a text about illusion colliding with disappointment and shattering in the face of distance and its scars, like bridges between the world of yesterday and tomorrow where today is a place in the dark."—Emma Pedreira

Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the crops and a cholera epidemic begins to wreak havoc among the population. Orestes, el Tísico, el Rañeta and Trasdelrío, el Comido, Tomás el de Coruña and many other predators who yearn for a better future for themselves and their families decide to leave their homes and go to Cuba to earn a living on sugar cane plantations. sugar. But that trip has an ordeal in store for them that their candid minds would never have been able to imagine.

Azucre is the novelized account of the true story of 1,700 young people who traveled to Cuba to work and ended up being sold as slaves by Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor, a Galician living on the island who, taking advantage of the need of his compatriots, promoted a campaign of white colonization and labor substitution brought in from Africa.

These shockingly beautiful, hypnotic and evocative pages, far from official reports and cold analysis, give voice to those silenced in this terrible event that at the time constituted a true scandal and that memory cannot ignore.

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[Nollegiu Award - La Petita 2021]

[Chambéry Premier Roman Festival 2022]

[V Prize of the Navarre Bookstores 2022]

[Espartaco Award, Gijón Black Week 2022]

[Almudena Grandes Novel Prize, Madrid Bookstores, 2022]