Between Martinez de Pisón y Manuel Vilas there is a literary complicity beyond generational coincidence. It is something that seems to enter very essences of literature towards life horizons rarely seen in the current narrative. What do I know, maybe it was something of an abduction in the 80s, when UFOs still visited this paragraph with blue makeup.
The everyday reaches a much more relevant meaning in these two authors. And the reader suffers that sensation of exorcism of his own demons to recover the notion of existence as something much more authentic, simply clinging to time and earth.
A road along the Portuguese border, June 1977. Juan and Rosa, barely teenagers, have an appointment at a clandestine abortion clinic, but an accident will prevent them from reaching their destination.
Almost twenty years later, Rosa and her son Iván begin what will be the project of their life, the recovery of a campsite on the Costa Dorada, at the other end of the peninsula. Since Iván was born they have lived in different places, always temporarily, always alone, fleeing a past that will soon catch up with them.
End of season It is a novel about the force, sometimes poisoned, of the ties of blood; about family secrets that make each generation doomed to repeat certain mistakes, and about how knowing transforms us into other people.
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón traces memorable characters and an extraordinary mother-son relationship in this story that spans almost a quarter of a century and reveals that the unresolved past is a vital trap even if we try to ignore it, or precisely because of it.
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