The fig trees are curdled with brevas and hand luggage with new stories that visit the beach, the countryside or the pool. On paper, summer starts with a garden in Tuscany and an Argentine womanizer.
The death of others always confronts one’s own life. Even if it’s been years since he met the deceased. Rebecca has passed away and the narrator and author have something to think about. She took him into her house when he was a teenager. Nothing was easy then. Not now either.
The rhythm is determined by the music. Each chapter begins with a tangover, with a fragment of a bolero. In 296 pages, Juan Carlos Etchepare conquers and entangles the widow of Mabel, Nené and Di Carlo. He is with everyone and with no one. Only tuberculosis begins to warm his head.
His grandmother was Polish and had green eyes. She’s alive, but none of the girls ever met her. She ran into a musician in Athens, and in the second round of concerts she left with him. They say Caterina looks like her, but she’s not convinced. Although disappointments between parties and love, running away doesn’t look too bad.
Her name was vague for centuries. His heart, for days. In José María Merino’s latest work, Sofonisba Anguissola’s biography is linked to the writer’s infatuation. History, fiction and autobiography become one thing.
Pia Pera has fulfilled the most popular fantastic menace of the big cities: she has left everything behind and set up an orchard in the countryside. But the tomatoes don’t come out from under the stones. In this small part of Tuscany, Goethe or Pasolini also fertilize the land.
Berta Vias Mahou. In La voz de then (ed. Lumen), the story of the Vias family is also that of Spain.
Which book are you reading? A biography of Kleist in German. One of the best writers of all time in my opinion.
‘Ebook’ or paper? Paper. To travel with lighter luggage, I prefer to carry fewer books and devote myself to rereading.
Are you leaving a book you don’t like? I usually don’t take risks. But if someone couldn’t convince me, I’d get off it without any problem.
Which one would you rather not read? I can not say it. The person who wrote it is alive. That day I took a risk.
Are the books underlined? I do. Wild. Though I’m tempted to buy a few more just to have them virgin.
which passage of? the voice of that time would you save from a fire? The summer walk in which the delirious father reveals a family secret to his children. A stain. dark.
Source: Marie Claire
