'Rita, Flor de Sal', the novel that rescues a story of love and espionage in postwar Andalusia

The most famous salina of Isla Cristina (Huelva) bears a name that hides a film story: Las Salinas del Alemán. Behind this denomination hides the life of Hans Burghard, a German chemist and spy sent to the coast of Onubense in 1939, who ended up inventing the flower of salt and falling in love with a local woman, Rita Milá. This story, rescued after a decade of research by the island writer Antonio Aguilera, has just become a novel under the tit…