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UN MAR VIOLETA OSCURO
A richly immersive tale of memory, grief, guilt, and love: the wounds harbored by women through four generations.
The 2018 finalist for the Premio Planeta.
When Ayanta buries her grandmother, she finds herself unable to remember the name of her great-grandfather - a man she had always known as "Lucifer". Through the keyhole of this lacuna, she begins to uncover everything her family has long kept buried under a layer of self-mythologizing. To dredge up the truth of the past and avoid repeating it, she must dive deep into her memories and trace the common story of the women in her family.
Elvira marries Evaristo, who sows the original seeds of terror and insanity. Their daughter Angela sacrifices herself for an absent husband, always in the arms of other women, neglecting her and their daughters. And the irrepressible Caterina, a passionate romantic - Ayanta's mother and the central absence of her own young life- chases love until she is finally destroyed by it.
A virtuoso achievement in different literary styles, Barilli's psychologically acute narration unfolds like a game of mirrors. UN MAR VIOLETA OSCURO evokes the primordial cadence of the tides: mutable, unfathomably deep, endlessly self-renewing. Ayanta Barilli is a writer and journalist. Se lives in Madrid.
When Ayanta buries her grandmother, she finds herself unable to remember the name of her great-grandfather - a man she had always known as "Lucifer". Through the keyhole of this lacuna, she begins to uncover everything her family has long kept buried under a layer of self-mythologizing. To dredge up the truth of the past and avoid repeating it, she must dive deep into her memories and trace the common story of the women in her family.
Elvira marries Evaristo, who sows the original seeds of terror and insanity. Their daughter Angela sacrifices herself for an absent husband, always in the arms of other women, neglecting her and their daughters. And the irrepressible Caterina, a passionate romantic - Ayanta's mother and the central absence of her own young life- chases love until she is finally destroyed by it.
A virtuoso achievement in different literary styles, Barilli's psychologically acute narration unfolds like a game of mirrors. UN MAR VIOLETA OSCURO evokes the primordial cadence of the tides: mutable, unfathomably deep, endlessly self-renewing. Ayanta Barilli is a writer and journalist. Se lives in Madrid.
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Published 2018-11-01 by Planeta |