Overview
Tras una década sin saber nada de ella, la narradora de esta novela sorprende a Tía Lidia sentada en una cafetería de Madrid. Ese momento, como una aparición fantasmal, desencadena una serie de recuerdos, y los dos años que la protagonista convivió con su tía caen en cascada.
El ataque de las cabras es una historia de crecimiento, pero también una crónica familiar que hará las delicias del lector. Con un flujo narrativo que alterna el desarrollo emocional típico de los primeros años de juventud con las hilarantes fábulas de una cabra insolente, la narradora irá descubriendo poco a poco tragicómicos secretos familiares que le permitirán entender las rarezas de su familia.
Como una maga que quizá se hizo escritora para poder lanzar sus hechizos en forma de historias, Laura Chivite despliega su indiscutible talento y su singular sentido del humor para explorar el paso del tiempo con sus penas y decepciones revelándonos, página tras página, una exquisita sabiduría.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
After a decade with no contact, the narrator of this novel bumps into her Aunt Lidia in a Madrid café. The chance meeting triggers a flood of memories of the two years the protagonist lived with her as a child.
In addition to being a coming-of-age story, Attack of the Goats is also an irresistible family chronicle. With its fluid narrative, alternating between childhood memories and the hilarious adventures of a mischievous goat, it gradually reveals a series of tragicomic family secrets that offer insights into the narrator’s peculiar upbringing.
Like a magician turned writer to better cast her spells through books, Laura Chivite marshals her indisputable talent and singular sense of humor to explore the passage of time, with all its sorrows and disappointments, cultivating an exquisite wisdom with every page.
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