Here, the blogger who subscribes has been one more from Logroño for almost a decade. So bring the author to this space Cold Miracles, last prize for the novel City of Logroño 2017 has seemed to me fully opportune.
As for the lucky winning novel, it is presented to us as a choral composition that in turn serves a multiple narrative intention. It is not easy to conclude that a novel is a mystery, love and adventure, all rolled into one. But when the mixture is achieved, when the threads of the characters and their situations end up weaving together in a precise way, the narrative alchemy can be achieved.
From the fundamental character of Laura and her decision to change of scene to settle in a small Galician town in charge of some farms, we are advancing in the knowledge of a character with his enigmas, his faults, his accounting entries of the past without closing.
In the small town where Laura is established, a natural interrelation with other inhabitants of the place emerges, until a new form of love emerges that is announced as a very opportune personal reset.
Only that the bucolic of that small Galician town also entails its days of rain, fogs and shadows. A setting that serves perfectly to accompany the change of register and the twists of the story.
Every trip or every change involves a risk. Laura's circumstances, which led her to that particular place, were marked by that erratic feeling that governs everything on so many occasions
So when magic happens, when a hint of happiness crosses Laura's destiny, she seems ready to do anything to achieve it. The matter can carry its risks, its mysteries. Meeting someone new and considering that they are the person you need to be with can end up setting aside other considerations about that other person's past, about your own non-closing accounting entries.
So this really is a vital story of love, of adventure, of mysteries…, as life itself may always be. Without forgetting that, reality and fiction sometimes acquire the tone of an unexpected crime novel ...
You can now buy the novel In the heart of the rain, the new book by Milagros Frías, here: