A Strange Adventure

Eva Forest (1928–2007) was an activist, writer, politician, publisher, and psychiatrist. Born to anarchist parents in Barcelona, she studied medicine in Madrid. Together with her husband, Alfonso Sastre, she became actively involved in the anti-Franco struggle, which led to imprisonment and a brief exile in Paris. In 1962, she was arrested and incarcerated, with her newborn daughter, for organizing women for the Asturian miners’ strike. A lifelong activist, she created the Vietnam Solidarity Committee in 1967, and in 1970, with her commitment to the Basque people intensifying, she established the Solidarity Committee with the Basque Country. After her imprisonment in Yeserías Prison, from 1974 to 1977, she, along with Sastre and their three children, moved to Hondarribia in the Basque Country, where they founded the publishing house Hiru and she continued her political struggles and internationalist fight for oppressed peoples. The author of many books—including Operación Ogro (1974), Tortura y sociedad (1982), and Los nuevos cubanos: la vida en una granja del pueblo (2007)—it wasn’t until 2007, the year she died, that Una extraña aventura was published.