Author: Sergio del Molino
- Fiction
- Alfaguara
- ISBN: 9788439727132
- Release Date: 03-21-2013
-Reviewed by: Libros Por Doquier
It's been a few weeks since I finished reading "L hora violeta" by Sergio del Molino, but I've let it sit quietly, I've digested it, I've turned it over in my mind thousands of times, and I still don't know what to write about it. It's true that there are books that touch you, that hurt you, but there are others that, even though you know they're very hard, you still feel that bitter taste and that pain in your heart from what is told and what you intuit after reading them.
I was able to read this book thanks to Masa Crítica from Babelio and this new edition that Alfaguara has published ten years after its release. A novel in which the plot itself doesn't have much importance. I mean, we know the beginning and the end before we begin to read it, but that doesn't make it any less interesting—on the contrary.
I've known Sergio's prose for a long time. His writing style is captivating, full of wisdom, intelligence, and skill. He's a brilliant writer with exquisite language that captivates. That alone makes his books worth reading, regardless of what he's going to tell us in them. However, in this case, the subject matter is much deeper, as in "La hora violeta" Sergio opens his heart at the most painful moment of his life to spit out precisely that year of his first child's life.
