Through eight short stories, Guadalupe Nettel takes us on a journey between reality and a magical world. Each story seems banal until it becomes strange, unpredictable or unreal. Sweets given behind a pink door that takes you back to the past, a hidden story about an unknown uncle, a monkey-puzzle tree in the family garden that dies but roots others in the garden. Each short story is beautiful, telling tales of relationships, of families, of love. I was fascinated by this reading, gentle and enchanted.
“As well as believing in the symbolic power of dreams, my grandmother was convinced that natural spaces have invisible but powerful guardians, and that in the forest it is possible to spot them. You must be respectful towards them, she would warn me. If you ignore them, they can turn against you. I had never sensed these spirits, but as we cycled onto this trail it seemed to me that the ground, the rocks, the trees and the sky formed the extremities of a being whose consciousness was observing us.”
Content
Imprinting / The Fellowship of Orphans / Playing with Fire / The Pink Door / A Forest Under The Earth / Life Elsewhere / The Accidentals / The Torpor
Original title : Los divagantes
Translated from Spanish