Esquivel

<< Mary, yesterday I went to Esquivel, which is another pueblo de colonización in the municipality of Alcalá del Río.

 

The tattooist of Auschwitz (III)

Heather Morris, the writer, pauses a few paragraphs to tell us about Gita's illness and how Black Mary, the cart of death, immediately appears in Lale's head; while she introduces us to Cilka, to whom her beauty goes beyond the surface, a virtue that is a rarity in most mortals.

 

The tattooist of Auschwitz (II)

Nor do I like books that boast on their cover with the strategy of being or having been a bestseller, emphasising as if it were a military medal achieved in the media and commercial struggle of sales. And with this I´m not saying, my friend, that all the books that have sold the most are crap.

 

The tattoist of Auschwitz 

Today I have started reading this book.

I cannot find the reason why the stories that are written about this near and dark moment attract me. Sometimes I think that it´s because in my adolescence I was interned in an institution whose objective was to annul the will of those who passed through that gate, they said, to become an upstanding citizen. Other times I reckon that in the novels that I read – very few - and in the movies that I saw - many more – I was able to understand, as if it were a parallel world, some of the miseries of men.

 

     Of planes and sharks 

     Dear Fran,

     Use this email to communicate you the pleasant news that my work "Holly, your flight has been canceled" has been selected in the LXIX National Painting Contest of Gibraleón.

 

El Viar

<< ... so I have changed Stromness for El Viar and Kirkwall for Villaverde del Río. My bike rides to Skara Brae and Birsay, I have changed them for the Pedro Espiga farmhouse, and the St Magnus cathedral for the Purísima Concepción church.

 

     A lifelong friendship

     Dear friend,

   My señora complains about a friend of hers because she says that she asks a lot, that she wants to know about people, but she hardly talks about her and her own; that she would be an excellent journalist.