Once the sky of the writer's profession has been reached (perhaps in the most unsuspected and therefore authentic way), each new novel of Landman is a prayer for his legion of faithful readers. Basically (although it is already saying a lot), because it connects with that pending life, that history never lived and that soul never occupied by all of us who dedicate ourselves to reading in search of mirrors where we can recognize ourselves.
We approached Emerson's orchard on one of those leisurely evening walks. Waiting for the extraordinary to surprise us at any time ...
Synopsis
Following the prolonged success of Fine rain, Luis Landero takes up the memory and the readings of his particular personal universe where he left them in The balcony in winter. And he does so in this memorable book, which masterfully re-braids the memories of the child in his town of Extremadura, the teenager who has just arrived in Madrid or the young man who begins to work, with stories and scenes lived in the books with the same passion and greed than in the real world.
En Emerson's orchard characters from a still recent time appear, but who seem to belong to a distant then, and as full of life as Pache and his bowling alley in the middle of nowhere, hyperactive women who support families like the narrator's grandmother and aunt, quiet men who suddenly reveal amazing secrets, or candid boyfriends like Florentino and Cipriana and their enigmatic courtship at nightfall.
Landero turns all of them into pairs of the protagonists of the Ulises, congeners of the characters in Kafka's novels or Stendhal, and in companions of the most brilliant reflections on writing and creation in a unique mixture of humor and poetry, of evocation and charm. It's hard not to feel transported to a story told by the fire.
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