CAMAGÜEY. - “I never aspired to come that far”, said the best Camagüey´s bookseller in the year 2019. Her name is Nemisley Francia Hernández and she lives in the Lugareño town. The unexpected thing for her was to take part in the International Fair of the Book of Havana, and this week she lived it.
From the mistrust with the trip she went on to the pleasure of receiving as rewarded work in an important event although in her bosom, contradictorily, it increases the persons' anonymity as young walker who in the normal days walks with the books on the back on the emulation always to entrust them in hands of the reader.
To know her well I put the example of when there is no sure transport of the Provincial Center of the Book and the Literature to her bookstore, she appears to the store in the city of Camagüey with the mother, the stepfather and the husband, and she moves the copies to supply the "Talía" between passengers of a particular truck.
“Not always one has what pleases, but I must wake up the interest”. With this maxim there is inserted where she sees an empty space or to create another one, and she goes to small towns of mixed names like Mola, Gurugú, El Carmen, Concentrado, Platanal, El Paradero and Fomento.
It looked as madness the sales plan in that place of the municipality of Minas, nevertheless, she collected 7 000 pesos and pointed at not countable results of the spiritual production in a territory where the salinity aggravates the soils and the sugar culture stays as a sad memory.
“For 2020, they put me 8 100 pesos. I propose myself as goal to take the literature to the people, not only for fulfilling but because the persons need it”, then she shares anecdotes of readership who return to the bookstore Talía to talk about qualifications and to tell the loans saga to relatives and friends.
The booksellers to be good we have to read everything”, and that it is affirmed with modesty by someone who was a librarian before bookseller and Bachelor of Social Communication. If the Book Fair of Havana should come that far as Nemisley, and it would publish the history of our bookseller, a real personage with amazing novel pages.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez