The narrator Antonio Iturbe is another of those authors touched by versatility. Only in his case everything is born from that increasingly atypical virtue of creative empathy towards the absolute mutation of the narrator who flies over each story and inhabits its protagonists. It is not the same to write children's literature or for adults, obviously. The creative overeffort must be more easily addressable for an Iturbe of always convincing transitions.
In his pure novelist side, we find a bibliography marked by that hit that was The Auschwitz Librarian, a blessing in the form of a story about a real testimony that reached that dreamed international significance. With such a lever, Iturbe followed his own, alternating youth literature with new woven plots when the author finds something relevant to tell.
Inspiration is not born with the magical cadence of commercial demands. Iturbe is giving birth to his stories in that search for unsuspected light. Writing about the great plot encounter is creative bliss, and for an author who has already tasted those honeys of success, it is also a respectful launch for readers awaiting the authenticity and brilliance of the previous novel.
Top 3 recommended novels by Antonio Iturbe
The Auschwitz Librarian
Faced with the feeling that everything is lost, the possibility of reaching a last lifeline. In this case, the effort returns the notion of humanity despite everything. Because alienation lurks with signs of alienation, of occupation of everything, from the cells of the skin to the wings of the spirit. Given this, there are those who are still capable of locking themselves in the internal bunker waiting for the end of the catastrophe with a stroke of fortune.
Above the black mud of Auschwitz that engulfs everything, Fredy Hirsch has secretly built a school. In a place where books are prohibited, young Dita hides under her dress the fragile volumes of the smallest, most hidden and clandestine public library that has ever existed.
In the midst of the horror, Dita gives us a wonderful lesson in courage: she does not give up and never loses the will to live or to read because, even in that terrible extermination camp, “opening a book is like getting on a train that takes you vacation". A thrilling novel based on true events that rescues from oblivion one of the most moving stories of cultural heroism.
The infinite beach
Estrangement can be the constant of a return to those places where you were happy at some point. The thing is to find the literature of it, of change. Among the melancholy of the now impossible scenarios, the author could have been the physicist he represents or even an astronaut who moves with his diving suit through the neighborhood of his childhood or what remains of him. Fantasies of memories rescued from those contrasts of what was and the need to assume what remains.
Iturbe is a neutrino specialist physicist who, after more than two decades abroad, returns to pay off his emotional debts to La Barceloneta, the neighborhood where he grew up. Walking through its streets again, you will discover that, between tourist flats, multinational franchises and the progressive disappearance of the neighbors, only vestiges of your memory remain and you must, with the help of a childhood friend named González, rescue his own past, while discovering the fate of some of his fellow generations.
The infinite beach It is a novel that functions as a sentimental guide to the lifestyle and the streets of Barcelona in the last half of the XNUMXth century; a melancholic love letter to a neighborhood and, by extension, to a city that will never return. And a vindication of the power of imagination, literature and fiction to complete a portrait of the last half century of Spanish history.
Opencast
There are souls born for special tasks. Halfway between daring and vocation, one could decide to be a pilot in interwar times. But the sky called to those pilots as much as the water to the fish. In transit, from that privileged vision of the world as a kinder place, with softer profiles, some little prince was even born while transcendent emails arrived and fortunate accidents occurred without victims...
France, XNUMXs. Only the best drivers are accepted at Latécoère. Among those chosen are Jean Mermoz, Henri Guillaumet and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, three heroic airmen who will open the first mail delivery lines on unexplored routes. No distance is too long for them, no mountain is too high: the letters must reach their destination. When they land, they face the turbulence of life on land in a century broken by war.
Opencast tells the incredible feats of three great friends who marked the history of aviation, and is also a tribute to the author of The Little Prince, an unforgettable writer who knew how to see reality with the eyes of a child. Antonio Iturbe has written an exciting novel thanks to the careful balance between the fast-paced action and the subtle emotion projected by Saint-Exupéry's gaze on the world, to the perfect characterization of the characters and the setting of both Parisian salons and literary circles. New Yorkers and the universe that surrounded those legendary aviators. A celebration of the essence of literature in a story of friendship, of impossible dreams, of love and passion, of the pleasure of flying and discovering, from the sky, a beautiful planet full of mysteries.
