Fantasmas azules

María is a young journalist used to leaving her mark who, disenchanted after a love breakup, decides to accept a correspondent in Kabul. There she will find a different world, strange and magical at times, blue and yellow, divided and inscrutable, populated by women who slip past her and that she does not quite understand. A world in which many other characters converge in that melting pot that is a devastated city in the process of reinvention, such as Mahmud, a guerrilla fighter recently descended from the mountains where the conflict still smokes, who seeks to reinvent himself and longs for a childhood that he almost did not have. , lost among kites and grenades, and who offers himself as an interpreter to Simón, a United Nations coordinator locked in his little world of a Western man who feels he has something to prove. And there is also Ibrahím, a carpet seller marked by memories; and Jana, an old woman who has seen too many women disappear; and Mister Marta, a doctor from an NGO, who, from his special way of understanding the world, chose to stay in the mountains when his companions left. Blue ghosts is a piece of goldsmithing, a novel that tells us about looks, silences, encounters and losses, and recovered childhoods. But also a reflection on the identity built from the looks of others and on individuality in a time where everything, even the certainties, are offered to us wrapped and chewed. With her, with her prose suffused with poetry, light, water and irony, Paula Farias confirms herself as one of the wisest and most incisive narrators of our lyrics.