The 3 best books by Gabi Martínez

Beyond the great praises of the admirers of travel books (those who have to Javier Reverte, much more versatile, or the very Theroux on a pedestal), Gabi martinez It is that other writer who is also capable of moving from that genre of discovering places in the world and their customs, to pure chronicle or complete fiction.

The important thing, the most meritorious thing is to move from one side to the other with grace. In the case of Gabi Martínez with the ease of the virtuoso of the letters. And so there is always where to choose and where to recognize a different author, puzzling, creative in essence when creativity is discovering new things for the author as well.

The question is to make of all literature. Collect a real testimony and give it that complement of the epic or tragic narrative, the accompaniment that every life deserves. Or, why not start from zero and consider a whole fiction towards a novel with that exquisite narrator's residue in all aspects.

Top 3 recommended books by Gabi Martínez

Defenses

The first thing I thought about with this book was the movie Shutter Island, with Di Caprio as a mental patient who hides in his madness so as not to face the cruel personal and family reality that surrounds him.

And I remembered this novel because of that same point of absolute awareness of one's own mental illness. Camilo is a neurologist who has gone into a tailspin. He knows he is disoriented, dislocated, unfolded to God knows how many folds of his personality. It may be more or less easy to prepare a diagnosis and associate medication in psychiatry, but what happens when the patient is the doctor himself?

Medice cure you ipsum. Heal yourself, dictator, says the Latin sentence. And that is the leitmotif of this novel with great shades of reality thanks to its real reference. In this book The defenses we are presented with the heartbreaking scenario of the unbalanced person, in transit between reality and the painful fantasy of madness. Camilo was a prestigious neurologist. Until one day he suffered an outbreak and even used violence against his family. The problem is that the official diagnosis had little to do with the reality of his case.

His admission was the beginning of his own therapy, which was not oriented towards official medical opinions. Overcoming madness and fighting against all external diagnoses, an arduous task to which Camilo dedicates himself along the tortuous path of recovery. But the book not only talks about Camilo, but also about his circumstances as a medical professional.

The novel embarks on a presentation of the Spanish health system, so valued and at the same time so corporatist and closed on too many occasions. And the doctor can cure himself, as the transcendent Latin phrase points out. And this story teaches us how. The real reflection of this novel is the case of the neurologist Domingo Escudero.

Invisible Animals

It is true that each place has its imaginary animal, materialized by nights back to the shepherd's corral or by the fisherman's wanderings in the mist. Some have survived to this day with the glory of international myth, from BigFoot to the Loch Ness monster. Others are reduced to legendary little ones from a lost town.

Invisible Animals is a project about mysterious animals, either because they belong to the legends of different places, because they are presumably extinct or because they are almost impossible to locate. The book proposes a literal adventure in each of its presentations, during which the trail of a symbolic animal is followed in the explored territory.

Through the relationship that the inhabitants have with that animal, their way of caring for it, chasing it or remembering it, the public will discover not only a geography but also the imagination of a society. Pivoting around the idea of ​​travel, each chapter introduces suspense by proposing a literal adventure in which readers, potential travelers, set out in search of a goal: an animal.

Invisible animals

A real change. A return to the origin in the land of shepherds

In the middle of winter, Gabi Martínez settles as a shepherd's apprentice in Extremadura Siberia to experience the way of life that her mother knew as a child. There he survives in a shelter without heating or running water, taking care of more than four hundred sheep. Soon he meets the inhabitants of the area and begins to immerse himself in their different ways of understanding the countryside. That's when you decide to face an even bigger change. A real one.

Through a radical experience, this book awakens our environmental awareness, connects us with those who preceded us and helps us understand our present in order to transform it into a simpler lifestyle, in harmony with nature. Gabi Martínez converts the genre of nature writing in high literature in these pages that are the chronicle of a self-learning.

The legacy of a passionate communicator and naturalist like Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, the effects of climate change on the environment and the heroic resistance of those who propose sustainable forms of production are some of the keys to this story that emerged from the territory itself. This reading that appeals to the senses brings us closer to farmers, shepherds, ecologists, men and women who subsist in an unknown natural area of ​​the Spanish geography.

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