“Shoot!”, before calling the journalist to his accomplice. Without Mercy,” Alicia Giménez Bartlett has no problem posing for photos like a cook at a food truck. It’s not free. The stabbed body of a French clerk attending a meeting in Barcelona turns up in one of these mobile gastronomic vans. She is one of the two partners running the business. This is the starting point of Petra Delicado’s thirteenth case, The Runaway Woman (Destino), with a finale that is more dramatic than ever. Petra, the first female cop in Spanish detective novels, a popular heroine with two million readers and admired in Italy, was born in 1996 by the experienced writer.
In 2020, Giménez Bartlett (Almansa, Albacete, 1951) published Petra’s extraordinary autobiography, Without Dead, and then commented to this newspaper that the intuitive and determined detective hid the most bitter, black and negative part. «I let it show a little here. He’s not resentful, but he’s become more critical. He is more uncomfortable than the society he lives in. There are things he doesn’t fully understand, things that conflict with his principles. And the young people came up to her, a waiter, and said, ‘Girl, what are you eating?’ He feels bad for his behavior like saying she. It looks like they’re making fun of you. Respect, courtesy, politeness are lost. Petra is a person of a certain age, like me. I was raised to tell my elders that I should treat them like you, it was a sign of respect. “I’m sorry he got lost.”
The author, who has won awards such as Nadal (Where No One Can Find You, 2011), Planeta (Naked Men, 2015) and Pepe Carvalho in his career, was amazed by the food truck phenomenon, which led him to move elsewhere. Petra and Garzón cross half of Catalonia, tracking the fairgrounds and the murdered man’s mysterious client. “It’s a world with fixed rules, everyone knows each other. The people who run them are perfectly integrated into society, they have families, they pay taxes… but they move in and out: when there are no fixed working hours, they don’t need to go to the office to put up with the boss. .. They say that they are proud of the work they do and that they feel freer. But there are also young people who do not have a profession and have to make a living this way.
Petra, who is always with her colleague Fermín Garzón, is faced with a case that eludes her with clues. “This is more pessimistic,” she admits. “We are all losers, with death we lose something until we lose everything,” the character says. “It’s a way of looking at life, but you can’t suffer,” the author says. Losing things breeds rebellion and pain, but you must accept that the end result is losing everything. In crime novels you play with deaths, but in real life death affects me, it’s a scary thing you have to get used to. “Life continues as it did after the pandemic.”
“Country syndrome”
Petra is also facing a relationship crisis. Her third husband, Marcos, wants to change his life and retire in a town with the provincial syndrome that has been so prevalent since the epidemic. The police are not clear. But Giménez Bartlett adopted this option seven years ago and settled in Vinaròs (Castelló), although he still keeps his home in Barcelona, which he considers a “brilliant city”, although it is now less quiet due to many tourists. “For me, it was a good decision. I feel freer, I devoted myself to gardening, walking, animals, reading and writing. It’s not like they’re sending you to Siberia, as my friends told me,” she smiles.
And she’s regaining her feminist courage. «Being a police officer benefits Petra; She is so caught up in herself that she can’t think of anything else. It’s not fair for the woman to sacrifice part of her job to maintain the relationship, as he wants. “Men’s work has long been sacred to the family base, now the base is split in two.”
“My refuge is writing, it liberates me and accompanies me. It’s like a guardian angel. When something doesn’t show up, I work hard until it does. “The day I am not successful, I will stop writing and devote myself only to reading,” he says, confirming that in 2022 there will be more Petra, as well as more Miralles sisters, the two rookie police officers with whom the series premiered. , along with the President, the former PP of Valencia about the mysterious death of mayor Rita Barberá’s transcript: “I didn’t get any information from the game, probably because they didn’t think I was dangerous,” he jokes.
Censorship and pushback
Are you worried that the popular ones are back to rule society? “Yes. There’s starting to be a decline in the use of the Valencian language and cultural censorship. Same everywhere with PP and Vox. Vox entered Vinaròs with an independent mayor and the first thing they did was remove the subsidy from the municipal band and the animal shelter.
They are against culture because culture is what gives you judgment and wisdom. If you have the ability to reason and read the ideology of Vox and PP you will be heartbroken. It’s not logical, serious or fair. Culture opens your eyes, so they think the less the better.
Source: Informacion
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