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Life is sometimes a monotonous succession of small habits. Forests are sometimes cages, borders for enemies, a green sea that threatens and does not yield.” This is the beginning of this unique and emotional book written by the nonsense Concha Pasamar.
This book is more widely published than literature on some of the great and special librarians who traveled the horses. However, the writing cults, the message, the text and the illustrations generate a pleasant reading.
The story begins in October 1929, when the economy broke out in the United States. This economy affected the entire country: unemployment, hunger, malnutrition and a tremendous infant mortality rate.
To get out of this way, the government put in place a series of measures through the so-called New Deal or the new Pact. As a result, men left the villages to engage in public work. In the villages, however, women stayed and they had to move forward alone.
She tells us the story of the women who distributed books in the Appalachians: “In a rural and isolated world, instead of taking the new Amazon books with mistrust, people soon began to be anxious about their arrival, to see the gentleman silhouette in the skies.”
This book by Pasam is a work in favor of reading, which makes apology to librarians, but above all I see it as a recognition of the work done by women. How they did their job with all the difficulties, how they helped each other by creating a network, how, apparently, it was easy to spread the life they achieved in those isolated countries.
At the end of the book some data on the work done by the librarians are shown. It was over a thousand women, about 30 hours a day horseback riding, to reach a million users. They moved half a million books between mountains, between beasts, to the sun and in winter ...
And all of this, in an old looking book, in a work totally recommended in the style of craftsmen.
Sorry as if there were no
Mariana Travacio
Erein, 2024
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