The color of silence, by Elia Barceló

The color of silence
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Novels that are presented as a mystery to unravel have always lured me. If this mystery also has certain ties to a real history, and in this case nothing less than the recent history of Spain, without a doubt the plot has won me as a starting point.

The greatest enigma that can arise is that of a death without justification, without foundation, without determining its causes. East book The color of silence It presents us with more than one of those enigmas about lives that end abruptly, with political and family consequences, with a significance that can mark the history of a country or the intrahistory of a family.

Helena Guerrero knows about those traumatic enigmas that are part of her past, only that not even for her all the pieces fit. Her brushes spread on the canvas those shadows that always accompanied her and that end up being sublimated in her valuable and recognized paintings.

But Helena had to find her place in the antipodes of her past. Australia is his new world, in a metaphor for that complete escape from what forever darkened his life.

It is fair to recognize, to understand that return to the origin of Helena, that always, sooner or later the human seeks to reconcile his past, minimizing it or trying to understand it. It is a task of exorcising necessary to continue living with a self in fullness.

But Helena's return is not going to be a gratuitous reconciliation. The death of his sister in 1969 now appears as a case of which to find out many pending details.

From Sydney to Madrid to return again to Rabat, where Helena was the happy girl, until everything happened. In Africa we understand the reason for Helena's artistic performance. The author presents us with this luminous space, saturated with precious nuances in the manner of one of the main character's paintings.

Then we can only discover the shadows, what is hidden in so much light. What links Alicia's death with a previous time, the moment in which the coup d'état that started the Spanish Civil War was being prepared.

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