La familia

"There are no secrets in this family!" proclaims at the beginning of this book Damián, the father, a man of fixed ideas and ideals obsessed with righteousness and pedagogy. But that house without secrets is actually full of cracks, and the oppression that permeates its walls will end up creating escape routes, clandestine codes, concealments, pretenses and lies. Made up of two girls, two boys, a mother and a father, this apparently normal, working-class family full of good intentions is the protagonist of a choral novel that spans several decades and whose stories pulse with the desire for freedom and criticism of the pillars that have traditionally sustained, and still sustain to a great extent, the family institution: authoritarianism and obedience, shame and silence.