Very successful Edurne portela in expanding on the magical contradiction of our peoples focused on their representative Pueblo Chico. Because from each of those places where we come from, we carry with us a telluric magnetism that on our return makes us inhabit the present and the past.
That is why everything that happens and what happened is immediately ours. In principle thanks to Portela's gift of empathy made prose. But also, and in essence, because what happens and what was recorded in the memory of the old scenarios seems to return to our retina as we see it when we open our eyes again. The gleams of a time suspended between the aroma of the wood on the fire are always there.
So this novel is a comeback for everyone. A tour filled with the enigmas of characters like the young Ariadna and the old Pedro. Both inhabit the same time and space. But the two belong to very different timelines. Some lines waiting for that magical crossing that rewrites pages that had been left blank, and that are solved in a fascinating way before our wide open eyes.
Synopsis
The closed eyes is a novel about one place, a town that could have any name and that is why it is called Pueblo Chico. Pueblo Chico is anchored in a wild mountain range that is sometimes covered with fog, other times with snow, a mountain range in which animals sometimes get lost, people disappear. Pedro, the old protagonist of this novel, lives in the town, a repository of secrets that surround the violence that has plagued the place for decades.
When Ariadna arrives in Pueblo Chico for reasons that are unclear at first, Pedro observes and watches over her, while Ariadna reveals her own connection with the silenced history of the place. The encounter between past and present, between Pedro and Ariadna, gives rise to a novel in which Edurne Portela investigates a violence that, although it forever disrupts the lives of the characters, generates the possibility of creating a space for coexistence and solidarity.
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