Bruno Blog

Ramon Cardona is a singer of boleros and tangos in the village fiestas. But it hasn’t always been this way.Twenty years earlier,before the war,he dreamed that all would be different:a happy future in a happy world.The war changed everything.The war forced him to leave his native city,Terrassa.And it also distanced him from Bruna.She remained there and suffered.For twenty years  she has done all she could to forget many things.Now she’s tired and she hasn’t moved from the neighbourhood.She has not seen Ramon ever again.One day in 1956,Ramon Cardona returns to the city.The city of factories and of the sirens,the city of immigration and work.He returns disillusioned and confused.He thinks he only returns to sing but he will find his past.The streets,the people,his own memory. Bruna also.In one day both Ramon’s and Bruna’s lives,indeed of all these characters,will change.Suddenly all that seemed forgotten will be unearthed.The blood,the deaths,the strength but also the rebellion,desire and love.

For ten years of his youth,three characters,two guys and a girl,fancied each other,doubted,love each other and brighten their respective lives. In the background two landscapes of the nineteen thirties:one tragic,the time of the great ideologies,of war,of death and one peaceful landscape, that of the summers in Favinyana,the clear skies of July on a friendly Mediterranean island.Years later,one of those three friends tells of the memories he has of that world. The final product is an ambitious,complex novel about the tension between ideologies and the individuals in a hard epoch.

In Ligácia, a small country in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula, Guillem Desclot, a mature and solitary writer, discovers some long-forgotten documents among his own papers. These documents take him back to his youth, marked by the presence of Evelyn Moore, whom he hasn’t heard from since. In the search of her trail, he returns to the past and the circumstances that surrounded a difficult period. What happened to Evelyn Moore? Why did she never return to pick up the documents she entrusted to Guillem? Why does nobody remember her? Guillem enters a strange world: childhood memories, secret societies, books that never existed and friends who refuse to remember their own past. The description of a limited and mean cultural class, the flasbacks that take us to the origin of the story and the splendid construction of the plot make “La desaparición de Evelyn” a passionate novel that will excite and surprise the reader until the last page.

Summer. Two telephone calls break the stillness of the night, setting off two beginnings which spring from darkness and may lead to two different endings: Bruno’s girlfriend has just died in a car accident. Some minutes later, another phone call brings back to him the existence of Julia, his daughter, whom he had sworn never to meet in his life, now demanding him from the other corner of the world. Julia is full of whys. She wants to know. Then come the secrets, confessions, and the meetings too… As Bruno composes this intimate long-distance father’s ballad to Julia, five women’s voices —grandmother Lena, Jasmine, Irene, Clara and aunt Luna— will portray along the lines of this letter the generosity, magnanimity and the boundaries of love’s power. “El tiempo del corazón” is the opportunity that Fate affords to a man to trust in his own life and truth, asking in return the highest price: to learn to bless the loss of the dearest ones. In order to accomplish that, Bruno will have to face the risky adventure of discovering himself, forgiving himself and revealing to a little stranger the most disturbing and frightened corners of his silences.

Andrea pinta desnudos utilizando técnicas que priman lo sensorial por encima de lo racional y mantiene con su modelo una relación sexual inmersa en una espiral de violencia. Pedro es un ambicioso ejecutivo que trabaja en un grupo editor de revistas y trafica con secretos de empresa. Malú ejerce de madre entre los primates que cuida en un zoológico, incapaz de tener sus propios hijos. Simbolizan los instintos básicos: la pulsión violenta, la alimenticia y la reproductiva, en un universo contemporáneo. En el preciso momento en que sus vidas se cruzan, los tres necesitan una escapatoria. Aprender a huir es la novela de una búsqueda, movida por una insatisfacción casi congénita, que cifra en la huida el destino de cada personaje.