Not long ago i read The eve of almost everything, the previous novel by Victor of the Tree, a disturbing story in the tone of a crime novel, which ends up becoming a magnificent universe of personal plots, marked by absences and tragedies.
At book Above the rain the starting point is quite different in terms of the plot. Nothing to do with a crime novel, a focus much more focused on the characters, small, recognizable in the everyday, but with a vast inner world and a bomb-proof vitality that will lead them through their lives, seen as a necessary trip.
It may seem that this book represents a break with everything previously written by this author, and in terms of subject matter it certainly is, which is already a creative merit of someone who does not seek the easy and comfortable pigeonhole. However, there is not so much break in the essentials. We meet souls who suffer and love, with their inner storms, their scars and their shortcomings. And there was a lot of that already in other previous books by this author that continues to grow and, given what has been seen, to reinvent itself.
Miguel and Helena are two old men on the verge of resignation. However, once they meet at the residence, they become each other's counterweight. And between their lost battles and their fears they find the courage to undertake new journeys together.
At the height of the impossible officers to whom we usually succumb, we also find in this magical story Yasmina, a migrant who seeks her identity amid the continuous and intensive obstacles of her closest relatives.
The three characters, both physically distant and close in the mental and emotional, will present different aspects of the force with which life situations must be approached. Will, love and hope as any engine to undertake any journey.
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