Etxebarría, Lucía – Cosmofobia (2008)

Synopsis

Hand in hand with various characters who intersect throughout the entire work, with a more refined prose than ever, Lucía Etxebarría traces loves and destinies immersed in the most recent news in an agile and direct novel called to become, on its own merits, the collective cry of an entire generation, in the accurate portrait of a new, more plural, more diverse society. In the definitive novel about a new era, ours. A more lucid and mature Lucía Etxebarria, with an extraordinary ear for capturing the language of the street and her emblematic sensibility for daily love stories, immerses us in the life of one of the most representative neighborhoods of Madrid, Lavapiés, and draws a vivid, real, intense fresco of its virtues, problems and concerns marked by immigration, ethnic plurality and the daily struggle, between modernity and misery, to get ahead.

(SOURCE: Lecturalia)