A story fragmented into a thousand pieces. Those of the characters that cross the soul of the reader with their particular imprint, with their passage through the world in moments where their lives take finalist paths, bitter aspects, icy touches or states that border on despair.
The most remarkable thing about this work is its ability to immerse us in quick stories, barely outlined, but perhaps for that reason magically close. The characterization of a character is a moment of magical neutrality where mimicry becomes easier. The author Colum McCan has known how to take advantage of that sketch of souls to make us feel within their destinies, of their first profiles of feelings, of their deepest desires without justifying in great developments or previous plots.
A kind of raw reading, an approach to the various protagonists of this mosaic of lives in a violent and direct way, as authentic possessions of our reading eyes on the thoughts of those who invite us to live them.
All we need to know about them is that they have that something to tell, even if they don't reveal it at all. And that probably with more time and more development we could reach that level of depth to which we are accustomed when we read any novel. But Colum has not considered it necessary, why explain what they are if we can take care of making them the characters we think they are?
An interesting book to share in a book club. An invitation to the fantasy of assumption, prosecution and the implantation of motives so that these characters move as they move and what happens to them happens.
Suggestive and suggestive literature welcome, the invitation of the writer to fill in the scenes with the soul of characters built to be experienced differently in each of those who begin to chain one word after another.
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