The abyss, by Pilar Quintana

The abyss, by Pilar Quintana
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Perhaps it is one of the most intense contradictions to riding, as they say. I am referring to the paradoxical and progressive experience of wanting to grow up. Because as soon as it is desired as later, it would be intended to return to that time in which so many authentic things are abandoned ... AND Pilar Quintana He has also asked himself once he exposes his protagonists to those abysses of maturity, where everything points to freedom from the prism of youth to end up being a sum of debts with others and with oneself.

But the thing, the leitmotif of this plot is if you can conspire everything. Yes some destiny may be able to arouse existential doubts of youth with the anticipated harshness of adulthood. And yes, everything can happen in the right home at the right time. Only that the inopportune of certain coincidences can open a Pandora's box of unimaginable echoes.

Synopsis

Claudia lives with her parents in an apartment invaded by plants that reach out to touch her. Like all families, yours contains a crisis, and it will only take something or someone to detonate it. Everyone has a turning point in childhood, and Claudia, the protagonist of this story, narrates, from the expectation and sharp gaze of when she was a child, the events that opened the cracks through which the worst fears crept in, those that are irreversible and push the edge of the precipice.

The abysses is a shocking tale in which a daughter assumes the revelations of her mother and the silences of her father to begin to build her own world. After the success of The dog, With this novel, Pilar Quintana consolidates the important place that she has conquered in Latin American letters.

«Los abismos delves into the darkness of the adult world through the point of view of a girl who, from the memory of her family life, tries to understand the conflictive relationship between her parents. Against the backdrop of a feminine world of women tied to the wheel of a Ferris wheel from which they cannot or do not know how to escape, the author has created a powerful story told from an apparent naivety that contrasts with the unhappy atmosphere that surrounds the protagonist. With a subtle and luminous prose in which nature connects us with the symbolic possibilities of literature, and the abysses are both real and intimate. "

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The abyss, by Pilar Quintana
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