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Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Sanmao, the bride of the desert)

Sanmao, la novia del desierto (Sanmao, the bride of the desert) Alejandro Amenábar

The story of the Chinese writer Sanmao brings us closer to the life of a woman who built a powerful literary world that opened the doors of her country to a distant and imaginary West. Her public figure became an icon of modernity that would be helped by the evolution of her own story, that was marked by tragedy and mystery, still unrevealed today. 


Synopsis: In the 1970s, the Chinese writer and traveler Sanmao had an exciting love story with the Spanish submariner José María Quero. They traveled to the Spanish Sahara where Sanmao captured her everyday experiences in the book Stories of the Sahara, a best-selling phenomenon in Taiwan and China. Sanmao became an icon of an independent woman and the protagonist of a life with shades of legend in which love, adventure, literature and tragedy are mixed.

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