El relámpago y después el trueno

A man discovers that his brother-in-law is a convicted murderer upon receiving a package containing an orange. In Ledesma, great wishes have a category more real than reality, and that is why memory keeps things that are not his. An aspiring porn star begins to understand the infinite universe that a single word contains. Pilot Henry Isaac Godmann Jr., 16, wants to be the bird that will eat the apple and then shit his pips in Hitler's mouth. Someone reads Hemingway inside a mine, and that was true. Four strangers trapped in an airport decide that laughter separates us from the beasts. God is a DJ and life is the dance floor of a Copacabana wedding. Captain Dagmar Keller thinks it's incredible that at twenty degrees below zero the blood keeps boiling inside the bodies and wonders who we are to murder this miracle. Everything happens twice. First the lightning, and then the thunder. Death only happens once. Javier Pillastre seeks in these stories the epic of the everyday (and the non-everyday as well), allowing himself to be dragged along by characters who need both the metal of the sword and the metal of the spoon to survive, and with a precise narrative that reminds us to a secret code about to be revealed. In these eleven stories nothing can be foreseen, beauty and pain are found in little traveled places, and the complex is amazingly simple. Rascal's tales wound in mysterious ways.