La Víspera / The Eve - Paperback
Description
by Manuel Jabois (Author)
Tras el éxito de Mirafiori, vuelve Jabois y su «impecable aliento literario (Babelia) con la perturbadora historia de una madre y un hijo, un viaje hacia el corazón de la institución más compleja de todas: la familia.
«Entre una pistola de imitación y una de verdad, la diferencia es la bala. Sólo apretando el gatillo puede saberse la verdad. Y lo mismo, pensó Amalia Constenla, con tantas cosas en la vida .
"Between a toy gun and a real one, the difference is the bullet. Only by pulling the trigger can the truth be known. And the same, thought Amalia Constenla, goes for so many things in life." Amalia turns sixty-five on December 31. But today is still the eve. She locks herself in the house to prepare food for the family while making sure everything sparkles for the big day. Outside, police and journalists have taken over the town because of an event that has paralyzed the country for twenty-four hours. In this unsettling story that takes place over a single day, an unforgettable protagonist, Amalia Constenla, pushes moral boundaries and draws the reader into a journey of sacrifice, redemption, and guilt. Manuel Jabois constructs, around a mother and her son, an uncomfortable inquiry into the origin and destiny of the first institution of all: the family. "It had cost a fortune. But they were a family. Sometimes things happened, other times they didn't, just like in every family. And if things happened, they worked it out, just like in every family. They were a family like any other. Families love and care for and protect one another and never ask each other anything, ever, and that's what all families do--or should do. Theirs, certainly."
Author Biography
Manuel Jabois nació en Sanxenxo (Pontevedra) en 1978 y empezó su carrera como periodista en Diario de Pontevedra. Tras pasar por El Mundo, desde 2015 escribe en El País. También tiene un espacio diario en el programa Hora 25 de la Cadena SER. Como escritor, ha publicado la novela A estación violenta (2008), las recopilaciones de artículos Irse a Madrid (2011) y Hay más cuernos en un buenas noches (2022); Grupo Salvaje (2012) -unas breves memorias sentimentales sobre el Real Madrid-, Manu (2013) y un largo trabajo sobre el 11-M titulado Nos vemos en esta vida o en la otra (2016). En 2019 publicó con gran éxito de crítica su primera novela en Alfaguara, Malaherba. Le siguieron Miss Marte (2021) y Mirafiori (2024). La víspera es su última novela.
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