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This books is a novel about childhood and memories, a marvellous text which transports us in time and space by means of carefully ordered images of Barcelona. The experiences are so exquisite that it is easy to feel the protagonist's emotions, from her grazed knees covered in dust and blood to the feeling of loss that we felt when we said goodbye to our last day of the holidays.
Crisis is a mosaic-novel whose protagonists are multiple and are one. The mosaic, without beginning or end, comprises different moments of drama, anguish and hope in the lives of Hispanic immigrants in the United States in the context of the Great Recession.
Hidden Truth Chronicles is a key work in Calders' writing and represents the discovery, for postwar readers, of an extraordinary storyteller. The author's humour and fantasy had, with the years, gained in intensity, depth and ambiguity, an ambiguity which always permeates fantastic literature, from Poe to Kafka, passing through Pirandello or Bontempelli.
Young Lidia's world is torn apart by a brutal and apocalyptic plague. A circle of fire and smoke surounds the city she lives in; nobody seems to be safe. Lidia, together with her father and her brother Carlos, will begin a long journey to find her mother; a journey with no turning back, after which she'll never be the same again...