The Dirty Low River, by David Trueba

The Dirty Low River, by David Trueba
Available here

The bibliography of David trueba It already matches his filmography. And that in the cinema he has been both in front of and behind the cameras on very different occasions.

A matter of knowing how to do. If this author is able to arrive with his stories in different formats and from very different prisms that reach up to the sociological essay with his work Tyranny without tyrants.

So this announced change of registry does not really surprise that much and it was expected in new registries with its proven ability.

It is true that, as on so many other occasions, in this river that runs dirty, Trueba soon seeks mimicry, winks, forms of connection with highly recognizable characters and settings visited by all. In this case something as universal as childhood. As exclusive from the individual perspective as it is so similar in the generality of the cases.

Tom and Martin wander through the 14-year-old no-man's-land, that prelude to maturity in which the first experiences appear with intensity. Days in which any kid is tightrope walking about life, about old stories, about the harsh realities that loom, and all this with the uncontrollable energy of hormonal change.

The two friends are going to live that disruptive experience, let's say classic in other great works such as Sleepers o Mystic River, . Only the Spanish, of course. And the natural progressive assumption of that bitter side of life explodes on the conscience of some kids that we accompany in that outbreak.

Cleverly, David Trueba adds a nimble pace. A tension that is born from the boys' own search for adventure, in that period, in those ages in which the childhood paradise is losing its grace.

And of course, then the danger appears, the wrong scenarios, the bad choices in search of a risk without any protection.

That's what it's all about, bad choices when they become irreversible. When you know that the future will be loaded with guilt and remorse of the characters about themselves when they were children in search of something different.

Danae is a magnetic character for both, a girl who will exert the powerful echo of the claim. And once Tom and Martín enter the girl's life, with her sinister father, the consequences will be unpredictable. Innocence can be lost in a thousand ways, in many ways. Tom and Martín decided to move to maturity from that vague sense of infallibility of unconsciousness.

A few years after those Easter holidays in town, the voice of one of the two friends will give us a good account of everything that happened. Nothing that cannot happen when a teenager encounters fear as a challenge and plunges into it without doubting for a moment that nothing can happen to him.

You can now buy the novel The Dirty Low River, the new book by David Trueba, here:

The Dirty Low River, by David Trueba
Available here
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