A suggestive and direct title announces a novel that has landed as last finalist for the edition of this delPremio year Mandarache, or prize hopefully, as he has described eloquently Barcelona author Alejandro Palomas, as it understands this event promoted by the City Cartagena as the prize every writer wants to achieve, the audience award.
Pigeons came to our city yesterday, 31 March, and since then has ceased to meet with students, book clubs and the general public who wanted to maintain a conversation with him and transfer him his impressions of a mother, the novel is presented these days.
This morning attended the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and there has not been alone, but the councilman of Youth, Ricardo Segado, and Professor of IES Isaac Peral and member of the promotion team, Antonio Gómez, accompanied him on the wheel press prior to face to face with 600 young people from various institutes in the auditorium of the UPCT.
The story revolves around a lovely, crazy mother figure, dedicated sometimes with a histrionic mood to defend his family and protect them, to save them all, he has told Antonio Gomez, who was in charge of proposing this novel for Mandarache this year.
In A mother the reader feel playing with its memory and located in a closed one enters space and exit, as it develops along a New Year's Eve but are intense dives accounts of pasadoque appearing involve different members family, absolute protagonist of the story.
To me has changed my life, he has ruled Palomas.
In addition, he noted that he wrote not thinking about going to a young audience, so understood as a miracle that has expanded the threshold of its readers.
Precisely 600 of them are waiting for him to perform an experiment with video-illustration that has come forward to put images in this story thanks to cartagenero audiovisual artist Salvi Vivancos.
In order that young people will stop to think what sound has a book during the two minutes it lasted the video, attendees were reproduced with maximum audio volume that brought prepared on their mobile phones.
PERIOD OF DELIBERATIONS
In the eyes of most of the 2,300 participants between 15 and 30 who are part of the jury of Mandarache have passed the final three books this year: Empire of Yegorov, Manuel Moyano;
The Inviernas, Cristina Sanchez-Andrade;
and a mother of Alejandro Palomas, so many of them already have forged their own opinions and are beginning to deliberate on their votes.
Nuria Ros, the St. John Bosco Salesian College, coincided with Paula Calatayud, student of Narval, they have felt identified with some situations a mother.
For his part, Fernando Navarrro, Juan Sebastián Elcano, wanted to emphasize the rule of Yegorov as a favorite, while Elena González, the IES Carthago Spartaria says that the adventures of The Inviernas seemed very interesting.
In short, diversity of opinions is served and will give yourself 18 to 21 April when the largest jury of Spain cast its votes through the project website to find out who this year's winner is proclaimed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena