Everything that I found was positive, from people’s kindness to its sunsets on amazing skies,” explains Stefanoni in an interview with AL DÍA News. In my case, it would have been, at most, a failure, like many others you can go through in life.
I came over to a cleared land, they risked their lives. “My grandparents ran away from the post-war, with nothing, only a 6-year old daughter and no money, spending 22 days on a boat trip. Spain is not alien to Stefanoni, it is actually close to her roots, and if it seemed that the shadow of uncertainty was about to peek its head -so typical of the current times-, it soon faded away in a city that has embraced her so lovingly, making her feel at home. But that same day, we started imagining spaces, drawing plans, coming up with names and by the end of that night, we knew what we wanted: a warm bookstore, specialized in narrative, with lots of poetry, art books, small tables to enjoy good coffee, and if possible a small stage for presentations in a few words “a place to meet that you wouldn’t want to leave,” reads the testimony that La Mistral owners posted on its web page.Īfter designing the project, the three friends were convinced that there was no time to waste and in February of 2021, Andrea Stefanoni bought a one-way ticket, packed her luggage and flew to the European capital with her dog Aurora. “We were in the middle of the pandemic, and it was more a crazy idea resulting from months of lockdown than a project.
The famous name, which pays tribute to the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Literature Prize, Chilean Gabriela Mistral, did not deserve less. Yes, the same year marked by the sanitary crisis, confinement, social distancing and face masks, was the year that Andrea Stefanoni, Carla D’Elia and Julian de Dios chose to “give birth” to La Mistral: a bookstore “conceived” in Argentina, which today raises proudly above calle Travesía del Arenal número 2, some 820 feet from Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun) in Madrid.
“What a moment to come into this world!,” is what anyone would say remembering how surreal everything we have been since then. It was born in the Cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires on a warm November night of 2020.
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