by Ana Merino · Ediciones Destino · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423368778
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A moving and intelligent novel about what happens when life drags us down paths we don't choose. An emotional greenhouse where each character seeks the light, even when they no longer know where to germinate. Juana has just turned fifty when her husband, Connor, leaves her after two decades of marriage: he tells her one spring morning with an unexpected, simple and devastating announcement. This is how this story begins. Juana tries to understand what has happened accompanied by Cécile, her brilliant and disbelieving friend, who, reluctant to commit, also enters her own emotional labyrinth with Marco, an ex-combatant turned policeman; Intermittent loves, family secrets and bodies that still desire unfold around them. Lieke, a young researcher who has left her country and her partner behind and seeks her place in the world, closes this circle of bonds by starting a relationship with Connor. The three women, from different perspectives, must find their way to inhabit loss and reinvent themselves without certainties. In this intimate and luminous story, the plants that grow, wither or change place are silent witnesses of heartbreak and abandonment. Each character, however, pursues the light and a loophole to germinate again. A powerful novel that pierces the reader's heart with unexpected truths. Because no one chooses to be left, no one knows what their path will be, but there is always the possibility of starting over.
Ana Merino Norverto is a Spanish poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and comics scholar. She won the Premio Nadal in 2020 for her novel El mapa de los afectos.
