Iced Peaches
(Espido Freire)
Elsa, scared by the continuous death threats she is receiving, decides to leave the city and to return to the village from which her family originated. There she meets again with her grandfather, with the history of her family and her own, which she had thought forgotten, and with stories which were never told, but which are still there, hanging in the air...
In this novel Espido Freire recounts the theme of family relationships through an intimate and deep account. Of remnant thoughts that he goes on collecting one after the other until he shapes up a story, difficult to follow at times, difficult to understand occasionally, but continuing to be passionate, hard and crude even in some parts of the story. What is most important is the feeling, because although it is set in temporal scenes such as the Civil War, the post War period with its miseries and shortages, it is without any historical description and limits itself to transmitting sensations, life experiences, feelings so human like the uncontrollable desire, the humiliation, the fear .... occasionally in such a way that it seems like it is us who are going through these situations, not some characters in the book. Even the end, although it can be devised as one goes through the book, does remain surprising and leaves a little taste of inconclusiveness. Like a story with a beginning but to which we have to make an end for.
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