Palm Trees In The Snow(EUFF 2017)

Since 1926 Fernando Poo’s island (Bioko now) was part of the Spanish Guinea, although it was a Spanish possession since 1778. In 1968 the independence of the country was proclaimed. The increase of the tension and the violence of those years was a difficult episode in our past that was unknown for us because the few news that arrived to the peninsula. Palm Trees in the Snow locates the action in the transitional period when colonies gained their independence on one hand, and on the other hand locates it in the present, on Bioko, a wounded territory, affected by years of instability, dictatorships, disappearances, tortures and lack freedom. This story is as epic as intimate; it is a story that connects two periods, two cultures, and two generations. The unintended discovery of an old letter pushes Clarence to travel from the cold mountains of Huesca to Bioko to visit the land where her father Jacob and her uncle Killian spent most part of his youth, Fernando Poo’s island. In the bowels of a territory so exuberant and captivating, Clarence unearths the secret of a story of forbidden romance framed in turbulent historic circumstances whose consequences will reach the present.