Juan Antonio Sacaluga presents his second novel 'Lights of the last century'

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'Lights of the last century' second novel by Juan Antonio Sacaluga narrates the adventures of a family of merchants starting from a common nucleus originating in Cádiz and later deployed in New Spain the new independent states of North America Spanish Florida and accidentally in France told in alternating present and past tense. In Mateo Moran did not return from a business trip to the Indies when scheduled without anyone knowing the reasons. Mateo's failed return will cause serious fractures in his environment.

The mercantile business and the particular adventures of the family members will be closely complicated by the political conflicts of the reign of Charles III the war of independence of the British colonies in North America and the French Revolution. Fifty CXB Directory years later Juan Moran Mateo's son has abandoned the trading practice that he inherited from his father. He now acts as a defense lawyer for mining workers against the abuses of large landowners in the province of Zacatecas New Spain present-day Mexico. At that time Spain is invaded by Napoleon's Army and the Crown needs the resources of American silver to finance the war effort. Eloísa Juan's daughter understands that to help her father she will need to delve into diaries letters notebooks stories and confessions that will allow her to unravel the secrets that have been forging the destiny of her family in the last half century.The novel is divided into three parts.



Each of them pivots around the predominant role of each of the three main members of the family. The narrative material is made up of diaries letters writings notes memorials and oral memories from which a young woman from the third generation reconstructs the history of her family its contradictions and secrets. The experiences that the characters live are not limited to the commercial field. On the contrary the commercial business leads them to participate in an important way in such outstanding events during the half century that covers history such as the reign of Carlos III the liquidation of the Cádiz commercial monopoly with the Indies the last decades of Spanish rule in New Spain present-day Mexico the revolt and subsequent war of independence in North America the French Revolution and finally the eve of the emancipation of the Spanish colonies in America.