Nothing better than a title composed as an ambiguous metaphor to awaken that curiosity about the image represented. It is about knowing how to offer an elusive idea or concept for reason that invites you to read to unravel its nature.
Irene Grace He introduces us to "The Boreal Lovers." And immediately that curiosity of ingenuity is awakened, the challenge of knowing if that lucky metalinguistic encounter towards the extraordinary concept can lead to a novel about a fantastic, luminescent love or, on the contrary, if it is a lack of love marked by the transience of the light.
The point is that the bait is already released. And in the simple composition of words, until now never coinciding, it is manifested that we are faced with a narrative proposal between the lyrical and the existential at times coinciding with a Bethlehem Gopegui with which it shares many similarities in the forms, with the thematic exceptions.
Because this novel takes us to the beginning of the XNUMXth century in Russia marked by a first socialist revolution that in the end seemed endless. And there we meet Roxana and Feodora, some girls whose exit to the real world takes place through the back door, escaping from a revolution that aimed directly at people like them, well-off until that moment.
And the change of life supposes an exile within his own country, a forced abandonment of everything known and a surrender to the most ominous part of a new world that aimed at equality but overflowing cruelty.
From a remote boarding school on an island near Europe where other types of conflicts were brewing, the girls face a dark path of forced learning and awakening to reality. And it is in this contrast between what happened to their lives and what the future augurs for them where that effect or that passion of boreal lovers appears, accompanied by their own views of that magical effect that is also discovered from the latitude of that island. in which they will stop being girls to be women.
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