In September 1943, the young Ella was imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp, from France. The head of the women's camp, the bloodthirsty SS María Mandel, nicknamed the Beast, discovers that her calligraphy is perfect and incorporates her as a copyist in the Women's Orchestra.
Thanks to her knowledge of languages, Ella begins to work in the Kanadá Block where she finds numerous postcards and photographs in the luggage of the deportees, and decides to write their stories on them so that no one will forget who they were. While he forms bonds of friendship with the prey, survives the evil of his captors and prevents them from discovering his particular resistance made by words, a rebellion breeds among the prisoners that threatens even more his life and that of the man he loves, Joska. .
Almost forty years later, young Bella receives a box full of postcards. These are postcards your mother wrote when she was in the East. That's what he called them: Postcards from the East. She wanted you to read them in due time. And that time is now. "
Combining fiction with historical figures such as Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Irma Grese, Rudolf Hoss, Ana Frank or Alma Rosé, Kings Monforte she returns to the genre that has enshrined her as an author. Richly documented and written with passion and emotion, he has signed his most ambitious work: a story about the liberating power of words, on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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