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Fiction

Pepa A Loba

By Carlos G. Reigosa

About this book

Pepa A Loba, the most famous Galician woman bandit, has at last a historical novel to pay tribute to her life. The novel springs from the story of this courageous and rebellious captainwho became famous almost in the whole of Galicia in the 19th century. Her story finally became legendary among the Galician people, and we have a rich and broad image of her today. This is an indomitable and infamous woman, despite the adversities she had to face.

Carlos G. Reigosa hits the point with a direct and vivid narration that brings together an intense love story with the backdrop of violence in a style that reminds us of the Comedias Bárbaras and Divinas Palabras by Valle-Inclán, all of them in the same territory and spirit. This is a memorable and captivating novel. Beyond the legend, we get to know the real story of the most famous Galician woman bandit of all times.

Book fragment

That image of Jesus on the cross was the only thing she could see in that room.

The rest was a dark, murky, unrecognisable space. Some strange voices spoke of things she did not understand. She thought that maybe she was in the midstof a country festival, eating lard by the hearth or drinking after a wake. Or was she nowhere? She felt herself floating in a sickness of weakness and infinite tiredness, as if she was weightless, as if she had shed her body – but still she could make out the clarity of that bronze cross that seemed to be caressed by a ray of light. She was, indeed, somewhere, but she did not know where. It was as if memory had faded away, without her being capable of bringing it back. In front of her a man spoke, she did not know him. She could hear his voice, which sounded cold and bitter, restless. She looked for him with the tired gaze of somebody who is beyond the threshold of exhaustion and finally managed to see him. It was a man in his fifties, lean and with a sharp and severe gaze, who was expressing himself with energy and even rage, as if he despised somebody and was saying hurtful things about that person.

— I just reminded you of the accused life so that you are aware of her low morals and her criminal ways. There is no doubt we are here in front of the most infamous and mean being we can remember in our country.