Los abismos

A girl contemplates with extraordinary acuity and sensitivity the troubled marriage of her parents. Between her disdainful attitude and her reckless confidences and his bitterness and stubborn silence, she tries to construct the reality that surrounds her, guessing, guessing, interpreting what is not said, or what is half said.Claudia's life passes normally in Cali, a carefree childhood, like so many others, because all happy families look alike. But as each one is unhappy in her own way, suddenly someone outside her enters the equation, destroying the harmony. And then it happens: life becomes something else when the straight line of the road is broken, shattered in favor of those nameless monsters, constant hammering towards the agony of suffering every minute and caressing the abysses, cold, cruel, invisible and ruthless. .Against the backdrop of the narrow female universe formed by women accommodated to their lives, who cannot break with an education from another time, Pilar Quintana has constructed an intimate novel, with a narrative voice dazzling in its naivety that, from the memory of the home, leads the reader through the obsessions that populate the childhood to which he is saying goodbye.