También esto pasará

As a child, to help her overcome the death of her father, Blanca was told a Chinese story by her mother. A tale about a powerful emperor who summoned the wise men and asked them for a phrase that would fit all possible situations. After months of deliberation, the sages presented themselves to the emperor with a proposal: "This too will pass." And her mother added: "Pain and sorrow pass, as euphoria and happiness pass." Now it is Blanca's mother who has died, and this novel, which begins and ends in a cemetery, speaks of the pain of loss, of the heartbreak of absence. But in the face of this pain, the memory of what has been lived and how much has been learned remains, and the reaffirmation of life through sex, friends, children and men who have been and are important to Blanca gains strength. All this in the course of a summer in Cadaqués, with its untamed landscapes and its intense Mediterranean light that bathes everything.