It is time for every virtuoso of prose to publish his first great novel. Patricia Esteban Erles she is virtuous because she puts her whole soul into what she writes. Wherever there is authenticity and commitment to what is done, it ends up being noticed. If we add the ease, emotion and depth of this Aragonese writer, we obtain the wickers of a great author.
The rest always comes in a row. Other previous books of stories and stories by this same author would already be sufficient justification for this qualification of the virtue of writing well. His passage to the novel could not be less.
Black Mothers is discovered as a worked novel, full of sensations born from the depths, of the inner child that sobs or laughs according to the occasion, filtered from the perspective of the miserable discovery of maturity and adorned with that control of tempos and impressions. that the domain of language ends up filling. A domain of language that in Patricia's case extends to that happy encounter of the virtuous writer with the most transcendent and poetic image, with the most opportune metaphor, with the perfect symbol ...
Mida, the protagonist of the novel, is a girl in an orphanage for nuns. Share with the other inmates square by abandonment or by epitaph. Some girls try to make pineapple and others seem to just want to spread the hatred of their circumstances. A vague sense of resilience seems to accompany the girls at times, still capable of recovering from doom despite going through an age on the brink of the abyss.
Our Mida discovers one fine day that God does not exist. He himself has confessed it in the light of the ominous world of that convent with an orphanage vocation. A place where the nuns surrender to the hell of punishment as the only way to heaven for their salvation.
Priscia is the nun who rules, with a heavy hand, over the earthly designs of that convent of Santa Vela. For her, the discovery of Mida is one of the greatest transgressions she has experienced in her life.
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