Three dwarfs and a peak, by Ángel Sanchidrián

Humor is the best remedy for boiling blood, heartburn and the brutal indigestion of social and political reality.

But I think that we are so up to the very end of so much ilk that surrounds us, that in the end this book Three-odd dwarfs it ends up becoming, willingly or not, a pleasant literary placebo satire.

Villa Trifulcas, the "singular" city of the novel could be Spain. As for the wide range of aberrant characters, from the orcs to the donkey bodyguards, all of them could easily be transfigured in a Council of Ministers or in any ordinary parliamentary session.

But hey, maybe it was just my thing to give that political reading, to farmhouse rebellion style but with real pigs ...

The point is that this book Three Dwarfs and a Peak entertains. And hell, the truth is that you laugh a lot.

Wifo Medroso is the character that leads us through the plot. He just wanted to document himself to complete his training in dwarfology. But Villa Trifulca, the city par excellence of the dwarves, begins to be invaded by dark characters as if taken from the apocalysis. Destruction seems the next destination of Villa Trifulca.

Wifo will have to seek his inner strength and do his best to stand up to evil in this delirious fable whose echoes always have reflections in our society.

A modern novel with a convoluted plot but easy to follow for readers of this other real world as convoluted or more.

Sympathetic winks of acid humor. Common pearls for an imagination that soon finds real similarities between the cascade of metaphors, hyperbole and moralinoid morals.

Disaster seems imminent. But perhaps Wifo did not have his last word. Perhaps he still has a chance to rebuild that world of frightened dwarves among so many evil creatures.

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