“I was overwhelmed by the enormity of the success of my novels,” the author said yesterday. international sales phenomenon javier castillo At Club FARO, in front of a mostly young audience, completing the capacity of the Afundación Social Center’s auditorium.
And not for the less: in a little over a month he saw how. “Snow Girl” series Based on the homonymous book, it was HEmost watched worldwide Netflixalready signed a second installment and which platform Sold the rights to “El cuco de cristal”, the book he is currently promoting on a tour that brought him to Vigo. And most importantly, he became a father for the third time. “I try to embrace every moment because I have the feeling of being in a dream. I am excited and grateful for your enthusiasm to welcome me.”
After joking with the public who wanted to bury the ax for the Christmas lights contest between his hometown and residence of Vigo and Malaga, he admitted that the city of Olive is among the candidates to be featured in the Netflix series because of its weight. Javier Castillo, who was celebrating Christmas in the plot of the story, answered the journalist’s questions for half an hour. Guada Guerra before the signing day.
He announced that he was already at work with The third and final part of the trilogy started with “The Snow Girl”.. He admitted that the first work in the epic, the best-selling novel of the pandemic, provoked an unexpected reaction, especially considering it went on sale two days before the ban. “I dreamed of pyramids of my books in bookstores, but they had to be closed. It was also sold in supermarkets, but the first month could not be bought because the books were not indispensable. And when bookstores started selling blindly, something magical happened.“, told. “I write confined within the four walls of my office and cannot imagine the consequences of my actions. When I wrote my first book, I was hoping at least five of my Whatsapp chat friends would read it; “Today, a series based on one of my works is the most watched series in countries like New Caledonia.”
His latest novel, “El cuco de cristal” (Suma editorial), took up most of the conversation. It begins with the story of Cora, a medical student who majors in a New York hospital to become an oncologist and is in dire need of a heart transplant, which she eventually receives. He was visited by his donor’s mother and invited him to spend a few days in a town in Missouri to learn about her son’s life and vulnerability. He agrees, and the day he arrives in town, a boy disappears and delves into his first-person story. At the same time, another plot from the past is told, played by the father of the donor, who came to his house in blood one day.
The castle explained playing with readers and their prejudices to make him suspicious of the characters who appear in this mystery novel with their weaknesses and pains and make them look suspicious. Her initial guess for Roman was neither the transplant story nor Cora’s herself, and on Instagram, which clearly shows the scar on her ribcage, Susana Ramírez admitted to an influencer named @sosann, which prompted her to include the subject. from organ donations He founded the story in the United States because it is possible for the family of the recipient and donor to meet there. “Donation is a magical thing. I would like to meet the family of my donor or the person who got a second chance to live thanks to organ donation from a loved one,” he admitted.
To the comment that his novels were addictive and so hooked that he couldn’t stop reading until they finished, he replied:Being told that your work is a fast read is a compliment but also angry. It’s like spending the whole day cooking and suddenly eating everything you’ve prepared.”
The cuckoo as a metaphor for animal instinct and the confrontation between science and spirituality
The cuckoo is a bird that lays eggs in other people’s nests for other species to incubate. When the chick hatches, it expels the rest of the brood and destroys the eggs in order to grow faster and without competition. This behavior helped Javier Castillo to name his work “El cuco de cristal” and thus “a heart placed in a foreign home” and the animal instinct that human beings have more or less. The bestselling author also revealed that she chose a town in Missouri for her novel because she wanted to distance the main character Cora from her New York urban environment and medicine, to confront the two components of science and spirituality. from the duality of man.
The author explained that the part of the puzzle, where the riddles and mysteries will challenge the reader, is the part he enjoys the most because it feels like preparing games for a meeting among friends. And the writing phase suffers because he’s empathetic and feels the tragedies that happen to his characters as his own. On the wall of his office, formerly filled with post-its, now with a digital whiteboard, place immovable plot pieces. They are structured as you type, not the personalities of the characters.