As a character novel, it’s a “magnetic”, “interesting, funny” story that’s “comedy as well as suspense”, with “novel” situations and characters and “huge dose of sentimentality”. so “Floating Garden”, third novel It is exhibited by the Alicante-born photographer and writer Pepe Calvo at 11:30 am on Saturday at the UA City Venue in Alicante.
“It’s hard to define because it doesn’t belong to a particular genre,” says the author of this story, set in San Sebastián, and structures a fiction. psychological and twilight thriller “where mystery, drama and sophisticated high comedy come together”.
The title of the book is a tribute A painting by Federico Chico“big dude” is “invented with some exceptions and nuances”, although it’s not really what’s happening in the plot around this picture.
It all starts one night when Víctor meets a woman who was a part of his life in the past. This meeting will take you back in time, opening the door to others to show you, where old moments that will affect your present will manifest. dark side of anti hero.
Some of the women who surrounded her life take the stage; their appearance madA woman who is ahead of her time, always by her side, sows the present anxiously. His meeting with his old friend Leo and the opera singer Anfibia and his intriguing relationship with his wife Paula, whom he does not want to leave, creates this network of relationships.
“one dramatic and soap opera spider web it has betrayals, comedy, eroticism, suspense, and some complexity in it,” assures Pepe Calvo, his previous novel. “Imagine my soul” (2018).
Delia and Anfibia “seem to have created themselves,” he says. And he emphasizes that ideas flow to him. “It seems that the novel has already been written and I am nothing else. just a writer directed by characters. Sometimes I walk right and sometimes wrong, and if I walk on the wrong path, they rebel.”
In this sense, it confirms that there are two ways to write a novel. Creating an index of what you will write or a map such as a compass. The second is his style. “The plot takes me to characters who sometimes shoot themselves.”
Paz Castello and Mario Martinez Gomis
Presentation of “Floating Garden” is made by the author. Paz Castello and Doctor in Modern History Mario Martinez Gomis author of the foreword, with Luis Muñoz, editor of the Letrame Editorial Group.
The law will also be counted with the intervention of the interveners.actress Ángeles Ceballos and actors Alfredo Belda and Pierre VivesWho will read parts of the work?
Pepe Calvo looks into the future like this a storybook already finished, hoping it will be the next thing to post and someone else Novel.