In perfect harmony with the novel Ana's suitcase, by Celia Santos, this novel about that never-ending truth never tells us about another woman.
The fact that in the end it is not she herself who introduces us into her life, but her son Alfredo, brings a point of mystery to the novel.
Sometimes we meet hermetic people, with a deep gaze as if extracted from the depths of their thoughts. And we know right away that those eyes keep secrets. And to those of us who like to tell things, we would pay to listen to a story, we would give away our time to know what that look hides ...
Sergi Doria has done something like this. He has sat down to write and what he has finally done is listen to his character.
But as I say, it is Alfredo who is outlining the character of his mother. Because she barely talks, she just sews. He would like to know more about his dead father, but his attempts to get closer to the truth of life between his mother and his father, who planted him in that time of the 50s in Barcelona, is an ocean of doubts about him. aimlessly navigating the iceberg of its existence.
But Alfredo does not give up and is plotting his plan to reach a heavy truth that would otherwise end up suffocating him.
It's never easy to start connecting the dots about the past. Or at least it seems that way, but as soon as Alfredo starts groping blindly, he begins to recognize figures from twenty years earlier. Characters that are releasing brushstrokes about their brave mother and her tragic future.
The past links to the present. Alfredo is young and his reality also permeates history, of course. As he investigates, we discover a restless Alfredo in his affairs who is opening up to the opportunities that life offers him.
In the end, present, past and future make up a harmonious orchestration that sounds in time with the lives that create new lives, like the chain of sequences that make up the film of the passage through the world of the human being.
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