Agustín Martínez: “I was already writing novels long before Carmen Mola came along”

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El Esplendor, by Agustín Martínez, is a novel in which the Murcian writer –one of the authors of Carmen Mola– tells the story of a couple living on an island in the English Channel through a psychological thriller set in Alderney. According to the author of the novel, the couple's search for answers takes them to the island that was occupied by Nazi Germany.

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Agustín Martínez (Lorca, Murcia, 1975), the youngest of the Molas, has published El Esplendor (Planeta) on his own, a psychological thriller that brings to light one of the lesser-known episodes of the Second World War, the concentration camps of the British Channel Islands. Although it is not a historical novel, the author indulges one of his passions: rescuing from oblivion those small notes on the margins of history. "Unlike Auschwitz or Maut…