Youth literature has in Alfredo Gomez Cerda to its author par excellence in Spain. Thousands and thousands of pages of a narrative for young readers who overwhelm his prolific generation. A creative capacity at the height of Stephen King, only turned into a work for boys and girls to discover in books that fundamental empathy that can only be achieved by reading.
Recently, I read in one of his interviews something like that the new generations of kids scared him. I don't remember the context well, but it is certainly impressive that a guy with the ability to blend in with the younger ones like Alfredo Gómez Cerdá points to a new distance that is opening up with youth like an unfathomable abyss of uncertainties...
But that is why they are more necessary than ever novels by Alfredo Gómez Cerdá. Because in their plots what the new boys discover are balanced, in a perhaps misadjusted or precipitous way in our ultra-connected world and with all the available information, with the classic guidelines to assume the information in a more empathetic way, more appropriate to the maturation process. .
And it is not that Alfredo Gómez Cerdá offers us naive literature, nothing to see. Because this author faces each new paradigm that boys face and builds around it new stories in search of that "adaptation", with his usual capacity to serve as entertainment and as an underground moral.
Top 3 recommended novels by Alfredo Gómez Cerdá
The face of the shadow
It is true that we would all have succumbed to social networks in our youth. In fact, on many occasions we remember that saying... "It's a good thing we didn't have cell phones and networks." Perhaps even kids today are more cautious when it comes to uploading videos or photos to certain sites or sharing them with certain people, because awareness-raising tasks have effects.
But there are always those who are outside the guidelines and norms. They don't have to be stray sheep, but rather intelligent boys and girls with a touch of rebellion. The point is that troubles and even big problems can arise from immature decisions that "only" sought adolescent pride.
The face of the shadow is a fast-paced novel in which three boys decide to gain notoriety and broadcast on the Internet through a recording made with their own mobile. However, the consequences of your action are unpredictable. Everything gets complicated and Adrián must find a way out; Despite his girlfriend, despite his friends, and perhaps despite his own family.
Eagle pupil
There are rugged and angular aspects of life that, however, young people also face at the most unexpected moment with the least imagined depth. Death seems something unknown to youth, but sometimes it also magnetizes those who do not belong or stalks those who least should...
Martina is a young woman who, born in a mountainous geographical area, lives in Madrid due to the demands of her academic training. One day, the girl undergoes a minor surgery. In the hospital where she is treated, she meets Igor, a young man her own age, full of problems. The boy tries to solve them by means of the absurd: suicide.
The sight of Igor in an apparently comatose state makes a terrible impression on Martina. And it is that, in addition to the fact itself, this reminds him of a tragedy suffered firsthand: the death of his brother Toni, whom he adored, in a mysterious accident that occurred in Madrid.
Skoria
Being the odd one out has its perks. The rare birds can end up being the ingenious men and women of a society longing for new lighthouses in all areas. And it is precisely them, the now called geeks, who concentrate a new vision of the world, an ability to modify absurd inertia of our world. Only the price is sometimes too expensive during the first ages.
There are no photos of footballers on the walls of his room. No clone singers or pre-made rhythms are playing on your stereo. Sports medals do not accumulate on its shelves. In his wardrobe he does not keep branded clothes, made according to the latest fashions. In class, listen and take notes… Is that reason enough to call you "Eskoria"?
