Natural law, by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

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Strange times those of the Spanish transition. The perfect setting to present the stranger Angel's family nucleus. The young man moves between the frustration of a father who bet everything on a dream and who is unable to escape failure. The need for a father figure, personified in a father not very focused on his responsibility as such, makes both Ángel and his three brothers travel in that ambiguous space where love and hate fight to take over the souls of children.

Ángel studies law and experiences first-hand the conversion of Barcelona and Madrid into two cities that seek their place between modernity and longing. Between a new legal system, a new status of a Spain in a no man's land, Ángel seeks the order of things and the order of his family.

The reasons why a father can neglect his children, if there are any, and the cause for some children to continue looking for a father where there has not been, move this story of personal transition into a social transition.

Good nuance novel, with a slow movement at times but with an agile final reading through characters that manage to transmit so many and so many sensations amassed in that double space, that of hope in a new society emerging in a new homeland and that of possible reconciliation with that other fatherland, parental authority never exercised.

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4 comments on "Natural law, by Ignacio Martínez de Pisón"

  1. I found it to be a cute book and it enveloped me with nostalgia. From my humble opinion "The day after tomorrow" is his best book. All the best

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