The nostalgia of Amphibious Woman, Cristina Sánchez Andrare

How would Sabina, "there is no nostalgia worse than longing for what never, ever happened." Behind the curtain of reality, legends make up that kind of nostalgic epic that magnifies the facts or makes them rarer. At the end is the compendium on both sides of the facts. Cristina's literature is in charge in this case of filling everything with that magical final sensation of what has been lived in other skins to feel that everything is true, tragically true.

The old woman Lucha is about to be killed by her husband before the astonished look of her granddaughter. The origin of the rancor accumulated over decades dates back to the early hours of January 2, 1921. The young Lucha lived through the shipwreck of the steam Santa Isabel at the mouth of the Arousa estuary, opposite the island of Sálvora. While the men celebrated the arrival of the new year, the women faced alone the rescue of the castaways by throwing themselves into the sea with their dornas.

They were considered heroines, but rumors were also heard about not-so-epic behaviors, in which greed and pillage coexisted. That night Lucha went to the beach dressed as a bride: she was dragging her long hair, and she let confusion lead her in front of a naked castaway but wearing a top hat. Who was she? An English musician or the devil incarnate? Why did Lucha end up naked like him? What happened that day will mark her life, that of her daughter and also that of her granddaughter.

The combination of a historical fact of enormous repercussion in its day, with fiction allows Cristina Sanchez-Andrade take a unique journey through three generations of women from a small fishing community full of memorable characters (such as the enigmatic hippie Stardust, or the prudish Jesusa).

Once again, the author expertly mixes the crudest realism with surreal delirium, summoning accurate aromas of the tremendous This unfortunatly , the magical realism of Cunqueiro and the grotesque of Valle-Inclan. The result is a fascinating novel: a reflection on memory involving secrets and jealousy, collective guilt and female desire; a challenge to the reader, written with technical skill and exceptional prose, capable of creating a hypnotic game that does not end until the last page.

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