The most sentimental literature from different flanks. With that certain point of masculine intrusion in a gender close to pink. Something that he shares with another Spanish author like Blue jeans, only from a broader view. Because the plots of David Olivas splash us all beyond loving approaches. And the result is ultimately something more like Albert Espinosa with the interest to move, to trace a daily humanism.
The sensitivity necessary for his novels comes standard for David Olivas. I am referring to his background in the world of photography where he performs with that virtuosity of art and the technique of capturing moments or scenarios that can encompass the widest or close on the most revealing detail.
So immersing ourselves in their stories is giving us the pleasure of inhabiting the souls of characters exposed to the transcendence of small things. Something that surely takes on its importance in a time where the peremptory nature of everything prevents us from enjoying that instant savor. Moments immortalized in the case of this author via shutter or pen...
Top 3 recommended novels by David Olivas
The flight of the butterfly
It has that point between beautiful and melancholic. I mean the flight of a butterfly. Vivid colors that stop and close or awaken their frantic blinking as we approach them. From that fleeting rainbow of life, this story is born for walkers in search of the most beautiful butterflies that previously inhabited opaque chrysalis...
After the death of her great love, Julia thinks that her life is over too. But her journey has only just begun. And it is that destiny can change in a few seconds and offer you a new opportunity to be happy. Sometimes love is stronger than fate. And fate is generous with those who deserve it.
The tragedy has hit Julia where it hurts the most: in the heart. Broken by grief, she returns to her family's town, near the sea, to try to heal from her wounds in the company of her family. There she discovers her correspondence between her grandparents, Miguel and Candela, separated years ago when he had to emigrate to Germany, where he died suddenly.
Now that her grandmother is sick, Julia decides to follow the clues in the letters to learn the truth about her grandfather's death. But what she will discover will be much more surprising than she thinks, a secret capable of turning her existence upside down and finally opening the door to hope.
The whisper of the angel
Sometimes, by illuminating the truth, faith in love can be restored. And like the light of a beacon, love always wins over darkness. After being surprised by his sensitivity and empathy in The Flight of the Butterfly, David Olivas once again excites with his new novel, a hymn to love, hope and truth.
Chance leads Eva Ayala, a divorced policewoman with a strong and determined character, to investigate the case of a boy who disappeared on the Night of San Juan in the town of Calella de Palafrugell, on the Costa Brava. In addition, Eva carries the trauma of a very recent past and must deal with her own personal crisis. The complicity that will unite her with Isabel, the mother of the missing child, will help Eva to face her tragedy and recover her faith in herself. But she will only be able to find peace if she discovers the truth behind the case, no matter how much it hides a terrible secret that will threaten to change her life forever.
Mixing elements of a thriller and a noir novel, David Olivas' second novel is above all an emotional story about the importance of family; a song to the love and courage of mothers.
The same compass
What unites two brothers who have shared a bed since the origin of their primary cells, from that electrical spark that shoots life from an unknown space, becomes the leitmotif of this novel The same compass.
Twins always wear it naturally. But we, the rest of us, always observe them from time to time with that point of strangeness, as if we could not understand a full and independent existence of two people built as replicas from the second 0.
Adolfo and Eduardo are two of those twins who serve the author to concentrate a cosmos of characters who share the search for love despite everything. The knot of this story overflows with humanity. The humanity of simple things, with the complex edges that humans endow them with.
Despite the fascinating simplicity of the story, which seems to rock you on each page, its abundant dialogues and the intensive characterization of the characters make the story flow fast, intense, with moments where an intense life about love rests and is visualized, about life and about fears.
Characters that move in that impossible balance of what is expected in life and what eventually happens. The planned and the improvisation of the emotions that insist on rewriting the script, the blog and the perspective of the world.
A suggestive story that grabs you and teaches you to love characters with whom empathy becomes immediate thanks to well-known contradictions and hopes, the same ones that move us all along the indecipherable path that we still have to walk.
Own Maximum Huerta anticipates on the cover of the book: "This novel is a movie." Well that's it, stockpile some popcorn and get ready for small-big intense emotions.
Other recommended books by David Olivas
I see you in heaven
In a time of openness of love towards any of its forms. And with its corresponding awareness towards the normality of all those options towards happiness, this novel offers us a love story against everything.
ElÃas is an Erasmus student in Rome, shy and insecure, who has finally managed to leave his town, a closed and conservative place. He is afraid of feeling lost, but deep down he knows that it is the perfect moment to find himself.
Enzo is a young elite athlete, handsome and driven, fighting to get into the national swimming team. He lives by and to swim without thinking too much about his heart, which is still wounded.
But just when both of them are going to make an important turn in their lives, their paths cross and an attraction arises that neither can hide and that threatens to change their lives forever. Will their love survive what the world thinks? Will they be able to accept themselves as they are and be happy?
