Synopsis
Barcelona. The night of October 25, 1992, the life of Miguel Montero, a twelve-year-old boy, will change forever. Twenty-six years later, the wounds are still open because the past makes us who we are. Barcelona. Spring 2018. Sara, Simón and Pablo, with many reasons not to look back and very few to move forward, will travel the city in search of answers to the inexplicable disappearances of women who have nothing in common; neither age, nor profession, not even their life trajectories coincide, twinned, however, in a tragic destiny. Sara, a police officer, waiting to know her sanction, will find in this search a reason to prove herself, but this will have consequences: discovering a terrible reality that hides in plain sight. Because there are people that no one misses, whom no one is looking for and who, wherever they are, are waiting to be found. Based on real events, the protagonists of this story must assume their lives in order to face the present, because the truth is uncomfortable, and most of us prefer to look the other way, although that does not guarantee that it will cease to exist. In 2017, a total of 6,053 people were listed in the Missing Persons and Human Remains system without identifying them. By mid-2018, that figure had already been exceeded. An average of 38 a day.
It is the first book I read by Graziella Moreno, althoughinvisibleIt is his fourth novel. The Barcelona writer already has in bookstoresevil games(Grijalbo, 2015),The Forest of the Innocents(Grijalbo, 2016) anddry flower(Alrevés, 2017): readings that I have pending. After looking carefully at the cover photo in which there are two men with their backs to each other and a girl who looks at her mobile, and the three of them have their backs to each other, I thought that the shots would go that way even though the synopsis implies otherwise . So I began to think about it: Sara, Simón and Pablo are surely at odds, but the summary says otherwise. Will Sara, Simón and Pablo be the ones on the cover? All three turning their backs on the reader? Perhaps to his past, which is why the synopsis says that he has no reason to look back. In order not to continue thinking about the coconut, I turned on the lamp at twelve and lay down to read. To those who disappear without a trace and to those who give up trying to find them. After the image and the appointment I was carburizing. I turn the page and two slaps: an excerpt fromSomewhere I Belongfrom Linkin Park and “Of the missing and the dead? What is the difference?”, by Juan Ramón Biedma. From then on the accelerator pedal stuck to the chassis. The speedometer needle in one position. Yes, in fifth and deep. Just six hours of reading. I fell asleep at six in the morning. The author, apart from not letting me go, slapped me all morning. Slaps to conscience. Slaps to the soul.
It is a novel set in Barcelona. But the city is the least of it, no matter how masterfully it is portrayed, what really matters are the characters. Flesh and bone protagonists. Characters in a dark well. Protagonists embracing an anchor. Characters submerged in a pit of frustration, rage, impotence, but always searching for oxygen. Survival in a grinding system, to my way of understanding, may be one of the cogs in the plot. Although the play focuses on the search for the disappeared and the suffering of those who have no answer, Graziella Moreno opens up a range of subplots that ventilate the rot perfectly. In each chapter, he dissects the misery of “normal” citizens such as Sara, Simón and Pablo. And in turn teaches that success and greed go hand in hand to become a reverend son of a…
The intrigue is present on every page. Even when you sense who or who are the bad guys, I couldn't stop reading. As I said before, it is a novel of characters. Good and bad with their ghosts. To say that Sara is a woman with a special character: a gunpowder. His brother is Simon: a librarian who can make books bleed. Pablo carries a tough past, like everyone else, and although he is an ex-drug addict he continues to fight his battle. I was amazed at how the writer treats psychological illnesses, especially Miguel's father, and the way she creates his disturbed environment. Nor can I forget how well constructed Dr. Roca is and how the author criticizes her actions and behaviors. Another dark character is Carlos: the pimp at the mercy of his boss to clean up shit and who, deep down, has some light. And lastly, I leave Lorena who perfectly teaches what it means to carry the past, fight with the present and always giving a smile to her bakery customers: the reflection of many workers in the country.
Social criticism is present at all times. Racism brushstrokes. indifference on the part of the authorities. The lack of budget. The art of "good" lawyers. Beauty, what are we looking for when we look in the mirror? The power from the dirty side. The underworld of the Internet. And streets, many streets. Streets that, as I said before, make Barcelona perfectly portrayed: pollution, insecurity, dark, sinister. It could be said that Barcelona is another character, yes, like almost everyone in the novel. Because if I have to save a character I stay with the girl from the library, from innocence and uncertainty, Graziella Moreno, is capable of capturing with the little girl what we are losing every day.
The writer, when I was reaching the end, was taking my foot off the accelerator. And as much as I took the necessary precautions not to get hit, since I put on my seat belt, the explosion of the airbag was beeping in my ears, and, what still lasts, is the impotence in my sternum and itchy eyes. to read so much bitterness.
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