Overview
«En esta casa habita mi memoria y mi primer recuerdo nítido es el de la tristeza».Desde pequeño, Juan Francisco siempre se ha sentido dislocado dentro de su familia. A raíz de la muerte de su madre, se irá fraguando lentamente la necesidad de huir de su pueblo, de ser otro, de crearse una nueva identidad. De esa urgencia, comenzará su éxodo en donde el arte será su único asidero para sentirse partícipe de la vida y con él irá reconstruyendo los fragmentos de su pasado, haciéndonos parte de la pregunta que a lo largo de la lectura nos haremos constantemente: ¿qué tan real es aquello que nos contamos como nuestros recuerdos? ¿Qué tan fiable, al final de cuentas, es nuestra memoria? María del Mar Ramón teje, con una prosa impecable, bellísimas imágenes en torno a la lenta caída de un hombre que se creyó la historia que se contó sobre sí mismo y sobre la gente que lo amó. «A través de una minuciosa y sólida composición de personajes, tres hermanos colombianos a los que sigue a lo largo de su vida, María del Mar Ramón explora en su nueva novela un tema que, desde siempre, ocupa grandes páginas literarias: la familia. Y nos regala una historia llena de matices, porque esta familia, como dijo Tolstoi, es infeliz a su manera. Los secretos, los traumas infantiles, los duelos tempranos, la soledad, los mandatos familiares, la culpa, los miedos, el amor y el desamor, aparecen en una trama que avanza como un río, gracias a su prosa fluida y delicada. Un mundo masculino que la autora se permite mirar con sensibilidad." ENGLISH DESCRIPTION “My memory lives in this house, and my first clear memory is one of sadness.” Since childhood, Juan Francisco has always felt out of place within his family. Following the death of his mother, he slowly begins to feel the need to flee his village, to be someone else, to create a new identity for himself. Driven by this urgency, he begins his exodus, where art will be his only anchor to feeling part of life. With it, he will reconstruct the fragments of his past, making us part of the question that we will constantly ask ourselves throughout the book: how real are the things we tell ourselves as our memories? How reliable is our memory? With impeccable prose, María del Mar Ramón weaves beautiful images around the slow decline of a man who believed the story he told himself and the people who loved him.
“In her new novel, through a meticulous and solid composition of characters— three Colombian siblings whom she follows throughout their lives—María del Mar Ramón explores a theme that has always occupied great literary pages: the family. And she gives us a story full of nuances, because this family, as Tolstoy said, is unhappy in its own way. Secrets, childhood traumas, early bereavements, loneliness, family mandates, guilt, fears, love and heartbreak appear in a plot that flows like a river, thanks to her fluid and delicate prose. A masculine world that the author allows herself to view with sensitivity.” —Claudia Piñeiro
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