The maxim that the second is the first of the losers is not fulfilled in the case of the Planet award. Both the economic accolade and the media repercussion are an incentive for a writer of great projection such as Cristina Lopez Barrio.
In the shadow of Javier Sierra, this lawyer and writer convinced the jury with a mystery and love novel, a kind of allegory about the search for identity and happiness, and the adventure that this can entail. The fog hovering over Tangier as a metaphor for the mystery that surrounds the search for the protagonist of this novel.
But this novel is also an act of liberation from the traditional female figure. A housewife enjoying a fleeting affair and surrendered to mystery as a vital plan in which to lose herself and find herself again in the streets of an unknown city where dangers can lurk as she undertakes the momentous journey of that stage of her life , marked by the desire for adventure, passion and feelings of freedom and youth ...
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Niebla en Tánger is the finalist novel for the 2017 Planeta Prize. Cristina López Barrio presented the novel for the award under the title La nueva vida de Penelope and did so using the pseudonym Bella Linardi.
After a fleeting affair with an unknown man in a hotel room, a bored housewife sets out to follow the lover's trail with only the amulet and the novel she was reading as clues. A search that will take her to Tangier and inside that forgotten novel, whose protagonist is named after the wanted man.
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