“Planeta invernadero”, by Rafael Navarro de Castro. In conversation with Pilar Álvarez and Jesús Ortega

On Tuesday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m., there will be a conversation with Rafael Navarro de Castro about his new novel “Planeta invernadero” published by Alianza Editorial.

The meeting will be held in the auditorium of the Centro Federico García Lorca and will be attended by Pilar Álvarez and Jesús Ortega, coordinator of the Granada City of Literature Unesco program.

Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Rafael Navarro de Castro

(Lorca, 1968) has a degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Extension and Rural Development. He worked for fifteen years in Madrid in the audiovisual sector and in 2001, tired of life in the big city, he moved to the Granada town of Monachil, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where he has lived ever since. There he has dedicated himself to farming, citizen activism and the environmental movement in Granada. After La tierra desnuda (Alfaguara, 2019), his first novel, Rafael Navarro de Castro publishes in Alianza Planeta invernadero.

Planeta invernadero

This novel takes place during the year 2019 in the Poniente, a coastal territory covered with plastics, where Sara, an agronomist engineer from Madrid, decides to turn her life around before her fortieth birthday. Around her work, her conflicts, her contradictions, her desire to live and enjoy and her decisions, orbits a whole planet of workers in the shadows, unbridled economy, edible technologies, old farmers who miss their ancestral knowledge, young people who turn their backs to the future, and tomato plants that grow several centimeters a day and bear fruit throughout the year. Stories and characters that will change the reader’s way of seeing what he eats and eats and lives.