EUROPA EXPRESS / EUROPA EXPRESS
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Autor:
ANDREA MACEIRAS LAFUENTE
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
Editorial Xerais
Publishing Year:
2015
Galician writer born in La Coruña. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology and a degree in Galician Philology. She is the author of novels for children and young people. She combines her work as a writer with her work as a teacher in Secondary Education. She has received numerous literary prizes such as the Jules Verne and Lazarillo awards.
She published her first novel, Proxecto bolboreta in 2007. In her works she deals with themes such as the search for identity or environmentalism, integrating magical and fantastic elements.
In 2015 she won the Jules Verne Award for her work Europa Express and in 2017 she published Lo que sé del silencio.
She won the Lazarillo Prize for Cuenta nueve estrellas, the Merlin Prize for La hoja azul and the Anaya Prize for Alma de elefante, her latest novel.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
A novel of psychological intrigue, the story alternates places, characters and distant narrative times, leading to an inexorable truth, capable of changing the course of the lives of its protagonists.
The freedom of travel, identity and the search for love are some of the constants of this story that delve into the essence of youth, as ephemeral in time as it is enduring in memory.
The main characters are 7 teenagers who travel around Europe on an Interrail trip at the end of their high school studies. The reader will discover their personal relationships marked by the death of one of them.
Ten years later, one of the main characters, Nico, finds a postcard in Berguen in which they all appear and that reveals important information about his current girlfriend, Aroa, and the deceased friend.
This provokes in him the need to resolve his doubts about his current love relationship with Aroa and about the tragedy they lived through with the death in strange circumstances of his friend Xacobe, despite Aroa’s reluctance to resolve the past.
Nico will contact his friends and to resolve his doubts he decides to invite all his friends and organise a reunion party where they will clarify what happened.
Nico will contact his friends and to resolve his doubts he decides to invite all his friends and organise a reunion party where they will clarify what happened.
Each of them will tell their version of events and finally discover the truth about their friend’s death. This will help them to move forward in their lives and to be able to continue with their personal relationships.
