El país más vacío del mundo

The emptiest country in the world. Chronicle of three years in Mongolia, recounts the author's journey through the vast territory of Mongolia, a country unknown to the vast majority. The book portrays her wild landscape, beautiful and inhospitable; It describes how the Mongols, nomads in their own country, survive in a territory of immense mineral wealth, but strangled geographically and politically by two superpowers, Russia and China. The customs of this people, their traditions, their religion, in short, their way of life, are drawn by the author to give an account of the reality of an immense... and empty country, in which the icy temperatures of the harsh winters or the complexity of its history (medieval wars, decades of communism) are just some of the characteristics that make it a unique and singular country. Of course, the figure of the mythical Genghis Khan is present throughout the entire book, as well as life in the country's capital, Ulaanbaatar, where immigrants from rural areas of the country are crowded together like in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. country, who come to it looking for a new El Dorado, only to come face to face with reality. Thanks to her knowledge of several languages, the author has been able to access historical sources and ancient texts of not only Anglo-Saxon tradition to document herself, which notably enriches her work and constitutes a privilege for the reader.