Primavera extremeña

In March 2020, days before all of Spain was confined, the author settled with his family in a house located in the Sierra de los Lagares, near Trujillo, in Extremadura. There they were, like the characters of the Decameron, secluded for three months in a place that gave them the most beautiful spring they ever lived. During that time, nature, preserved from human intervention, was filled with light, bright colors and animals in the wild, while the tragedy of the pandemic raged relentlessly. And it is that life, despite everything, manages to break through the cracks of reality, however narrow they may be. In this book two languages ??intertwine to narrate a spring as unexpected as it is cruel and beautiful: that of the suggestive prose of Julio Llamazares and that of the evocative watercolors of Konrad Laudenbacher, friend and neighbor of the author. Once again, as has always been the case, art and literature appear to offer comfort and a spell that attempts to stop the world's pain. Spring regained.