Prose acquires its greatest lyricism wherever humanity seems to move away from its kindest and most friendly principles. the horrors appear from the existential to the circumstantial. That is the endless narrative space where Nuria Barrios It leads us through large vital spaces to practically the agoraphobic. Everything to finally offer us a necessary, beautiful refuge, counterbalanced in that beauty that ends up riding on filtered rays of sun, made into words, when it has been possible to verify that everything is wild and threatening.
That is the true beauty of literature, to manifest the contrasts that accompany the natural contradictions of the human being. Because to be born is to die a little, every minute, and that has a difficult explanation or accommodation with our pretensions of eternity submitted to reason.
Novels, verses, stories, articles and translations. In the hands of Nuria Barrios everything is literature, a soul of letters cultivated in the humanistic of philosophy as a vocation that ends up being revealed as the essential spirit of the tellers of the most transcendent stories, the intrastories that dot the events of any event with detailed chronicles. epoch.
Top 3 recommended books by Nuria Barrios
Everything burns
It is not easy to assume. But the truth is that the crooked lines are not straightened by God, much less by someone bent on perdition as a destiny. In that defeat that is common to all of us, a little to each new defeated day, the flashes of immortality that pointed kundera the greatest gleams awaken in that raging humanity confronted with its crude reflection ...
Is love enough to save a life from disaster? A beautiful, stark and moving novel about family, the fine line that separates normality from disaster and the trail of light that love always leaves behind.
This is the story of two brothers. The little one is called Lolo and he is sixteen years old. His older sister, Lena, is hooked on crack and heroin. He has been away from home for a year and no one knows his whereabouts. One day in August, Lolo meets her at the Barajas airport, where she gets money with petty thefts. To convince her to come home with him, he decides to accompany her to the shanty town where Lena buys drugs and seems to live.
When they get there, night falls and Lolo encounters a seemingly chaotic and hellish reality. Lena gives him the slip and he is suddenly alone, lost and in the middle of a clan fight. The moment she finds out that Lolo's life is in danger, she goes looking for him. Separately, each brother tries to find the other in a race against time.
How far can a junkie go to save her brother? Will you let them kill him if he endangers its use? And how far is Lolo capable of going to save her sister, who is sinking into the abyss? Will he risk his own life? Everything burns talks about what family means, about the fine line that separates normality from disaster and the trail of light that love always leaves.
Eight Centimeters
Short distances, always. The short story uncovers the author on duty in his way of personifying notions, worldviews, metaliterary approaches to his own trade and the natural desire to leave black on white what is bubbling inside.
This time there are up to eleven stories woven together by tragicomedy, almost always defeated by a final defeat charged with the deepest feeling. Characters as brought from lost verses that make up an epic survival poem, a song by remote Ulysses, never to return to Ithaca to tell it.
What distance separates pain from happiness? A gypsy evangelical pastor proclaims to his fiery faithful in a shanty town that the distance between one and the other is three inches. Nuria Barrios' stories, intense and vibrant, are located in that minimum interval: there where not everything is lost, where writing makes recognizable thresholds that are rarely shown to us. These eleven stories have edges and shine brightly. There are eleven diamonds. They cut. Isn't that what we expect from literature? Let it inquire, let it enlighten us, let it hurt us.
The alphabet of birds
In the universe of Nuria Barrios, even the paradise of childhood has that other side towards the concerns that arise from the mere fact of being. Because every final doubt about our passage through this world means that even our imagination presents itself with the least expected answers.
Nix is ​​six years old, born in China, and adopted. She loves her family very much, but the pain of abandonment, to which she does not know how to name, torments her. Only the stories her mother makes up soothe her, appease her anger and bewilderment. But the pain always comes back.
The girl believes that the secret of happiness is in the womb where we live before birth. His friends know that womb, they come from it, and Nix thinks that, to be happy like them, he must return to the interior of his Chinese mother, the place where it all began. Only by going back to the beginning could he know who he is, give meaning to his new life, eliminate so many unanswered questions. But that trip is not possible. Or if?
The voice created here by Nuria Barrios takes us into the heart of an extraordinarily sensitive and ingenious girl. The alphabet of birds is a novel about what it means to be adopted, about the fierce wounds that abandonment causes, about forgetting and memory, and about the moving power of love. But above all it is a novel about the power of the imagination.
