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El General Silvestre y la sombra del Raisuni, by Luis María Cazorla
From February 17, 2014 until March 01, 2014
Presentation of the bookFebruary 26, 2014 – MADRID
El General Silvestre y la sombra del Raisuni (General Silvestre and El Raisuni’s Shadow) unfolds its gripping plot in the western part of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, from its creation in 1912 to 1918. The Ninet family, which has taken up residence and prospered in Larache and Tetouan, continues its adventures in Moroccan lands, in a tale which the author already dealt with in his successful work, La ciudad del Lucus (The City of the Lucus).
Mixed together in this novel, over a well-documented historical backdrop, are the desires for peace of certain politicians and military figures (Romanones, Dato, Marina) and the bellicose fervor of Manuel Fernández Silvestre, in his heated battle with the devious local nobleman, El Raisuni. Also depicted in the book’s pages is the covert fight in which French and German spies took part in those lands during World War I, as well as the Masons attempt to settle in northern Morocco, and the earliest evidence of the disease of economic corruption.
With this vibrant historical scene as a background, episodes of friendship, love, loyalty and betrayal take place in this melting pot of races, religions and cultures which, with greater or lesser fortune, formed the lengthy period of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco.
The presentation of this book is taking place on February 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ambassadors’ Hall at our headquarters in Madrid (at Calle Alcalá, 62). Attending this event, in addition to the author, are Feliciano Barrios Pintado, a Professor of Legal History and an Academic and Secretary General of the Royal Academy of History, Luis Palacios Bañuelos, a Professor of History from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Eduardo Torres Dulce, the State’s General Prosecutor, and Juan Manuel Riesgo, a Professor at the Humanities Institute of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Vice-President of the Spanish Association of Africanists. Presenting the event is Eduardo López Busquets, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached
Luis María Cazorla
A Doctor of Law who received extraordinary honors, a tenured Professor of Finance and Tax Law at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, a State’s Attorney, Attorney of the Spanish Parliament and Inspector for the Ministry of Economic and Public Finance Services, Mr. Cazorla is currently the Secretary General of the Board of Spanish Stock Exchanges and Markets (the company which owns the Stock Markets of Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao, as well as the remaining Spanish financial markets) and the managing partner of the law firm Cazorla Abogados.
The author of more than twenty-two books on Law and Sociology, he is also the author of the short-story books titled El proyecto de ley y once relatos más (The Bill and Eleven Tales More) and Cuatro historias imposibles (Four Impossible Stories), as well as the novel Ni contigo ni sin ti (Neither With nor Without You). He was a finalist for the “Javier Tomeo” International Novel Award in 2007, with his novel Cerca del límite (Near the Limit). In addition to other positions, he has held those of Secretary General of the Spain’s Congress of Deputies, Director General of the Technical Cabinet of the Ministry of Public Finance and First Vice-President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, as well as being a member of the Legal Commission of the International Olympic Committee.
The son of a Larache resident, as well as having been born in Larache, he has a close relationship with all affairs involving Morocco, which led him to write La ciudad del Lucus, published by Almuzara in 2011, a novel very much connected with El general Silvestre y la sombra del Raisuni (Almuzara, 2013).
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