lost identity. M ª Dolores Moreno Burgos 
In 1937, while Spain is torn in the tragic Civil War, the government of the Republic to send an expedition to Mexico with a group of children, including orphans war and children of Republican fighters to save them from the horror that plagues their country. With the consent of the Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas, in June of that year alone, malnourished, ragged, more than four children, bringing only their small bags and hope to return someday to be reunited with their loved ones. Unknown that their fate would be very different, and that would almost his entire life in that distant country.
Cosme
Among them, a small native Almazán (Soria), in 1936, just nine years old, he moved to Madrid to help his brother Antonio and his wife pregnant. The outbreak of war surprises in the capital and Antonio, to the fierce upsurge in fighting, as part of the expedition to Mexico to save him from almost certain death. In addition to having lived through the horrors of the war, Cosme will be found, along with his traveling companions, lost in the defeat, exile and separation from his family.
Things in Mexico are not much better. Housed in a boarding school in the city of Morelia, Cosme soon discover that it has fallen into a cycle of abuse, arbitrariness and the worst excesses of baseness, until, little by little, it will lose the essentials of his person, his identity.
In lost identity Lola Moreno takes us through Cosme, a character fiction but very real, raw and unforgettable experience of those lives broken and helpless by history, these little beings that the world then known as "Children of Morelia," a shameful episode that many try to forget.
She
Lola Moreno was born in Almazán (Soria) in 1956 and lives in Madrid. BA in Geography and History and a Diploma in Archives and Information, since 1983 serves as the Technical Museum in Madrid Railway Museum, where he did research on this transport, history and environment. His articles and research on the railway have been published in various media. lost identity, her first novel, is the result of a trip to Mexico, where he lived for nearly three years and where he experienced first hand the "Children of Morelia." This book is a tribute to these forgotten children by almost everyone.
Reviews "Filled with exceptional expressive power, lost identity us back part of our history and reveals the egregious and unknown fate of the so-called" Children of Morelia, whose lives, started in Spain during the civil war, were lost in exile in Mexico but so far nobody bring them into print. A novel extremely powerful and emotional than knocking at the door of the heart and memory. " Ana María Moix.
Collection: Historical Umbriel
In 1937, while Spain is torn in the tragic Civil War, the government of the Republic to send an expedition to Mexico with a group of children, including orphans war and children of Republican fighters to save them from the horror that plagues their country. With the consent of the Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas, in June of that year alone, malnourished, ragged, more than four children, bringing only their small bags and hope to return someday to be reunited with their loved ones. Unknown that their fate would be very different, and that would almost his entire life in that distant country. 
