From caste it comes to the greyhound. I recently reviewed a book by Fernando Onega, the father of this author, who was lavish in an interesting essay on the Spanish reality. But hey, let's focus on this book.
Love in times of war. The paradox is reproduced in this story brought from the Spanish reality. 1933 was a turbulent year in which the coming Civil War was already anticipated. The figure of the woman was still far from acquiring its relevance as a free person, beyond the designs set by parents, husbands, the church or any other person or institution that officially superseded the female will.
Carmen Trilla was one of those women trapped by her concerted destiny. An unreal love in an unhappy home. But her will for true love, appearing in another man, ends up pushing her towards rebellion and resistance at all costs.
Clandestine love has its lights and its shadows. The intensity of the furtive is preceded by the wall of stubborn reality, whose passing in the coming years of wars and exiles, whose ideological and moral circumstances moved everything in another direction. Carmen had to fight to undo that suffocating unreal space that hung over her.
Federico is that lover also stubborn in the fruition of forbidden love. Between the two of them they try to escape the enveloping spider web that the conventions and the disaster of war spun around their lives.
An unforgettable secret love story that went through a war and overcame all social barriers. Some children who could witness the struggle of this woman to find her place where there was still no room for women.
You can buy the book After Love, the latest novel by Sonsoles Onega, here: