En Victor of the Tree the term suspense acquires a transcendental dimension, even spiritual. Because his disturbing proposals are born from guilt, remorse, melancholy, souls all that slide like hurtful ghosts ...
The epicenter of all violent movement always has a deep place where the shock, the friction of plates or the explosion that awakens the magma is generated. And the human condition was conceived from the same Earth to which we are attracted with evident gravity and not so well known telluric force.
Lowering this review in detail, we look as always at the author's magnetic characters. One never tires of discovering nuances or unsuspected aspects in the characterizations of Víctor del Árbol. Because silences are seldom as explicit as in his imagination, from where he knows how to materialize that tension in the simple sidelong glance or in the supposedly more random gesture ...
Synopsis
Who is Diego Martín? Even he doesn't know. A family man, a husband, a respectable university professor. One of the children of the immigration from rural Spain to industrial Spain in the sixties. Someone who has made himself renouncing his origins, his roots. And at the same time someone incapable of freeing himself from that past, from his father's shadow, from the ancestral confrontation between the Patriota family and his own. A man who is becoming what he hates the most.
The trigger is Martin Pearce, a seductive nurse who takes care of his sister Liria, who has been admitted to a psychiatric center for years. Martin, who at first seems like a sensitive, refined boy captivated by beauty, hides another face that Diego will discover in the worst possible way.
What did Martín Pearce do to unleash an unknown Diego? Why do we need the truth about ourselves if we can hide in lies?
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