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See How Much I Love You

by Luis Leante - £9.99  Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780714531540 | ISBN 10: 0714531545

When Montse and Santiago meet as teenagers in 70s Barcelona they have little idea where their summer romance will lead.
 
After they break up, in spite of Montse's pregnancy, Santiago decides to spend his military service as far away from her as possible: in the Western Sahara, Spain's only African colony. There, he is one of the few Spanish soldiers to befriend the local Sahrawi people, quickly falling in love with their customs and culture. But the year is 1975 and the colony will not last much longer. Following the death of General Franco and the Spanish withdrawal, Santiago becomes caught up in the brutal war between the Sahrawi and invading Moroccan forces. He is entrusted with escorting a Sahrawi friend's family on an epic journey, hundreds of miles across the desert.
 
Thirty years later, Montse, now a divorced doctor living in Barcelona, sees a photo of Santiago carried by a Sahrawi patient. After discovering that he did not die in 1975 as she had been told and that he, like her, has lost both a child and a partner, she sets out to find him amongst the refugee camps of the Western Sahara, a journey that will prove to be every bit as dangerous as Santiago's so many years before.
 
See How Much I Love You, an epic love story spanning more than thirty years, was inspired by a humanitarian trip made by Luis Leante to the Western Sahara.

After an invasion by Morocco in 1975, the people of the Western Sahara became displaced with no homeland and are refugees still, living in desert conditions more than thirty years later. The charity Sandblast exists to highlight their plight.

"An essential novel that must be bought and read"
(Almudena Grandes, author of The Wind from the East)

"Wholly entertaining, a novel that hooks you in from the first line. An original and dramatic love story set in an innovative context: refugee camps in the Sahara and although it is not a political work, Leante’s testimony leaves the reader hurt, indignant and angry; the reader lives the tragedy of a people whom history has marginalized and sacrificed systematically."
(Mario Vargas Llosa)

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