Cristina Fernandez Cubas does not introduce her heroines to us easily. She takes us on straight paths at first glance, and at one moment, she turns everything upside down. We discover that her characters are torn between two realities, the separation between which is very precise: the fixed reality, and the imagined or delusional reality. . One of them overpowers the other at times, and at other times a reconciliation occurs between them, without us knowing which of them truly exists, and which of them does not exist.
“Nona’s Room,” which won the Critics’ Prize in Spain (2015) and the National Narrative Award (2016), is a magnifying glass through which we see the complexities of the human soul and the mystery that surrounds our lives without us always succeeding in observing and understanding it. In it, “Cubas” reconsiders childhood and maturity. And loneliness and family, revealing to us that nothing is really as it seems, writing all of this in transparent language and in a unique style that gives it a detective touch, with skill and lightness.
هل كُتب علينا الشقاء والإرهاق، أم هناك في هذه الدنيا استراحة نفسية يمكننا جميعًا الوصول إليها؟ استراحة نفسية هو كتاب يمزج بين العلم والدين والفلسفة، ليصنع وعيًا
girl..
Accordion player..
Some fanatical Germans...
boxer..
Multiple thefts...
They are the heroes of a story I have kept to retell over and over again, one of many stories, each trying to prove to me that you, your human existence, are worth it.
If you have the desire to investigate the details of this story, come with death and he will tell you a story.
