There is some vital continual learning in those children with childhoods of varying destinies. I am referring to those who went from school to school to each school year, following in the footsteps of their parents' job destiny. Clara Sanchez She was one of those girls who every so often had to pack her bags to face a new life. And the truth is that as alienating as it may seem, there is a great virtue in change in terms of that learning, that constant relocation that pushes constant adaptation to new environments.
In the case of Clara Sánchez, as a budding writer who was naturally already in her childhood, all that would also end up nurturing the creator, always in need of variety and empathy, of diverse perspectives and varied approaches.
The moment of the writer would come some time later, with the lapse of the intermediate period dedicated to teaching and to some first novels that were leading her to a mastery of the trade that ended up making her one of the most outstanding writers of today.
Literature approached as a mystery to unravel. The suspense as a basis to naturalize in this area of the unexpected, the dark and the enigmatic, any aspect of the most recognizable. The waters of literature as the shore where we can find our own reflection rocked by the waves of unexpected and disturbing stories.
This author is all that when she decides to present us one of her new stories. And given the evidence of a career full of success for more than twenty years, there is no choice but to wait with absolute expectation for a new plot around the most varied plots.
His novels can come in the form of plots that revolve around obsessions and fears. Or perhaps delve into mysteries projected from the inside out, from the insides of brilliantly empathetic characters who can transform themselves into the greatest of enigmas.
Because Clara Sánchez is an outstanding character builder in whose orbit any plot makes up a new plot universe of unimaginable dimensions. Grandiloquent, perhaps, but true.
Top 3 recommended novels by Clara Sánchez
The sky has returned
An exquisite suspense narrative that in turn delves into the current formulas for success focused on image and the set of appearances that end up building an unreality like any form of life. And if that was not enough. Success usually always arouses polarized feelings among outside observers.
Patricia has someone who idolizes her as a model. But he also has someone who detests what he has become, what he represents in the face of his own frustrations. And these types of people are capable of turning their hatred into an obsession.
A mind that plans to give a complete outlet to its obsession can end up convinced that it must destroy you. And it won't be because Patricia wasn't warned. That flight with an unsuspected travel companion. A warning with a tone of prophecy.
A reality that shortly after adjusts to the bad omen of that traveling companion named Viviana. Finding her won't be easy. But Patricia feels that by contacting her again she could give them answers about the marked misfortune that besieges her.
What your name hides
Again a female protagonist, Sandra. Sandra's intention is to escape a little from everything that has been her life up to this point. A coastal town and the ancient Mediterranean as a balm and placebo for the soul. And that's what the story appears. Open spaces, the constant cuddle of the waves breaking gently on the sand.
Two old Norse men seem to spend their last days in that same arena. The endearing stamp of the love that has managed to last invites Sandra to get closer to them.
And they get along well... Until Julián enters the scene like a strange bird of bad omen who seems to break the harmony with I don't know what stories about his days in Mauthausen and that peaceful pair of grandparents. Nothing that Julián tells him fits with today's world, everything seems taken from a feverish imagination.
But at least the message remains for Sandra there, in a memory space, ready to emerge in case something squeaks in the idyllic coexistence with her new friends.
Between Sandra and Paola (for me the second is the absolute protagonist of the novel The eve of almost everything, Victor of the Tree) this harmony is awakened around the character who flees from a stormy past towards a vital repair that is difficult to undertake. And the weight, the tension of the story, that kind of destiny or fate that insists on dragging down this type of characters happens with symmetrical intensity in both cases.
Sandra's meeting with Julián ends up pointing to that magnetism about the sinister. Sandra keeps deep inside her the secret that largely motivated her escape. Julián also harbors within her, but in his bowels and in his tortured mind, that remote time in Mauthausen mentioned above.
The counterweight of life about to arrive is barely sustained against the burden of lives with pain and guilt. And the worst thing is that, as in a macabre plan, the coincidence of both in the small retirement town seems more and more to reveal itself as a fatal omen.
Come into my life
Clara Sánchez is unique in a subgenre of suspense that ends up connecting with the emotional in a sublime way. It is about awakening a thriller from the most seemingly endearing.
What is more idyllic than the world of a girl, Veronica, who lives comfortably at home with her parents. Even the secrets seem harmless, irrelevant. Over the years, the little clues Veronica has never forgotten turn into long threads that seem to link with inconceivable pasts and blood secrets.
When Veronica's mother dies, everything comes out, perhaps there is no reason to hide anything. The only thing left is the shame of what could have happened, of what was done... all part of a hidden photo in Veronica's father's pocket. The face of that girl was never erased from Veronica's memory. And now she is clear that she must know who it is...
