La casa de foc

One winter night, a man arrives at Sallent de Santa Pau. Soon, the newcomer is commissioned to teach at the Sea, a thirteen-year-old girl. His family is the axis around which all lives in the valley of Being revolve. "This girl will get lost", says her grandfather, a man who has the gift of finding water underground and giving orders without opening his mouth. To find out what it means to get lost, we will have to travel the paths that connect the houses and experiences of the inhabitants of a valley where everyone arrives fleeing from something and only those who have not been able to leave remain. The outsider looks for the stories buried like a saurian in the veins of water, and a portrait is made of the valley and its people, of time and country, of its myths and of himself. We are at the center of the world and of history. The House of Fire is a work attached to reality and magic, a novel that seeks and finds, a story that travels through our present and tells us about the future, a book that must be read.