Nothing more hyperbolic and macabre than considering killing your father. But Águeda is like that. This is not a role that you have had to play. It is just a matter of monotony and boredom, a badly managed pregnancy, the tedium of an insignificant life and the strange and powerful need to pay revenge for the fact of existing.
A debut feature by Roberto Osa that does not walk around with warm cloths or warmth. Sometimes the first novel tends to provoke a kind of self-censorship (from my own experience and from what has been commented with other authors). Perhaps that is why Roberto has done the opposite, a flight forward to escape the fear of the fucking blank page. And it has turned out extremely well, no doubt. The Felipe Trigo novel award attests to this.
«Águeda is in her thirties, is eight months pregnant and lives alone in an apartment furnished with cardboard boxes. His face has been missing his left eye for years. She has a near perfect boyfriend and a father she hasn't seen in many years. His life is quite monotonous: he works nights, sleeps little, talks less and contains his anger as best he can. But the routine is going to explode over a phone call.
The woman decides, and thus proclaims from the first sentence of the novel, that she is going to kill her father. She will not wait to give birth or plan to ask for help, she will do it alone and she will do it now. The story takes place in little more than a day. A desperate journey from Madrid to La Mancha, from a city with the streets covered by tons of garbage to the arid and stark landscape of the plateau, in search of a past full of violence that will culminate in the reunion between father and daughter. .
An absolutely hostile geography - uninhabited houses, empty lagoons, brothels in low hours, cemeteries in construction sites and stones, many stones - is the setting for a powerful story with hints of rural drama in which the tremendousness, certain aesthetics of western and the timeless background of classical tragedy. '
You can buy the book You will bite the dust, the first novel by Roberto Osa, here: