Mika Etchebéhère might seem a fictional character, but she existed. In the summer of 1936, Madrid vibrated with the revolutionary expectation of happiness; at the same time there is fear of what the right-wing military coup will bring to the country. The streets are full of young people looking for weapons for the imminent civil war. Together with her husband Hipólito, the Argentinean revolutionary Mika Etchebéhère has joined the armed resistance to fight Franco’s troops for a fairer world – despite the unequal means at their disposal. Her political conviction and her love for her disease-prone husband have led her to war. When fate threatens to shake her vitality, it is once again events that help her overcome personal grief, and Mika, with her strong charisma and ability to inspire people, is indispensable to the ill-equipped militia. They appoint her Captain, the only woman to lead a column in the Spanish Civil War. And while she is with the young men and women under her command in the trenches near Madrid, they end up fighting the Moscow stalinists, and another drama begins. Captain Mika (“Mika – La Capitana”) A lightwax-narrated, stirring novel about the life and love story of a woman in times of war and revolution
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OBRAS | Doble fondo | La Capitana / Mika | A veinte años, Luz | Cielo de tango | Callejón con salida