La piel del plátano

The Banana Skin is a novelized story of economic corruption that, in a very special way, would be devastating in the Valencian Community, in particular, and in Spain as a whole, in general, associated with public power once the democratic transition has elapsed. The story concludes in the years coinciding with the imported financial crisis of Lehman Brothers, and the internal looting of savings banks by political leaders. Economic corruption in Spain permeates acronyms of parties or regions; the case of Valencia is one more among the existing ones. Nor does it end with the 2008 crisis, despite the legal measures that were adopted afterwards. As for political corruption, which goes hand in hand with the first, it has the consistency of steel and does not and will not cease. But The Banana Skin is also the story of a man capable of permanently reinventing himself, of a politician who has known how to go through the different intricacies of political changes, always landing on his feet. The fact that a banana peel can make him fall is not an obstacle to recognizing in our protagonist a rare ability to straighten the course of his existence, successfully facing the difficulties that he would encounter along his way. Shadows, but also lights, in the life of a singular man.