The love of Albert Espinosa for that deep literature towards optimism, with a touch of philosophy, it ends up becoming a vent somewhere between fiction and reality. Inspiration in vein for a multitude of readers who yearn to meet each of his new books.
And with hardly a breath from his previous book, we find "The best thing about going is coming back", a book that points at the beginning towards that contradictory aspect that is living in itself. From the first pages we discover that tone of confession of the work that slides towards the perspective of the survivor of the most intense adversities, only transmuted into a protagonist named Rosana. Because Rosana and her existence soon point to a great story that she has to tell us.
Surely passing through Espinosa's own experience in his particular early youth among hospitals, bring you that early wisdom of someone who knows that every moment must be savored with the taste of the peremptory. And that is evident in some confident characters of extreme truth, of sorrow and joy, of the trivial and the fundamental.
And you can even make estimates, as in the book, about good and bad days. It can be quantified with the certainty that we will all have, more or less, sixteen dark days from which we must resurrect like a phoenix, to make the most of the rest of the days that providence always grants to compensate. You just have to know how to compensate for it.
The Rosana in this story throws herself into the open grave to tell us the events of her worst dawns, and there are many, as many as those that take place in a century of existence.
The worst of old age is also the best that happens upon arrival. The old forget and confuse, repeat feats and idealize their best moments while hiding their bitterness. But Rosana keeps that memory intact of the first time she was happy, and from there she launches us into that adventure of growing old, in which few remain, others move away and disappear.
The end awaits Rosana, as short as reading this book can be if you have time to devour it in one sitting. But her story, more or less true, will make her immortal in thousands of readers who will know how to find that increasingly less contrasted wisdom of old age.
Rosana has already been and is back. And for that alone it is interesting to listen to it. Because his only commitment is to the truth that only the old know about all this of living with the different winds that blow in life.
You can now buy the novel The best of going is coming back, Alberto Espinosa's new book, here: