It is clear that the novels of light gabas they arise as great stories cultivated with that great force of telluric, attachment and roots. And this time it is already guessed in the title "The heartbeat of the earth" that construction with the aroma of sagas, secrets and memories that make up the scene of passions and yearnings with which to sow a new plot at the height of a bibliography that lit up the publishing market with its fascinating takeoff of "Palmeras en la Nieve".
Alira, the protagonist on whose avatars this new universe is built around 400 pages, becomes that character outlined from the full authenticity of an author who has turned much of her same passion for the land, for those spaces full of echoes, irrecoverable for modern life but always magnetic for writers, poets or painters.
In a small lost town Alira takes refuge. That place where, in the absence of any support, the protagonist of the novel considers that her life takes on some meaning. An inheritance in a remote place like the one presented may not be a great claim for almost anyone. Except in cases where you are already back, after having practically reached the antipodes of yourself to find almost nothing.
But precisely in this abandonment, while we are getting to know Alira and her projects facing the dilemmas that can arise in that empty, melancholic Spain and yet brimming with natural life, we also delve into mysteries with shades between disturbing and magical.
Chance needs variables, interaction. Away from the world, where no one lives anymore, it cannot be that the mysteries are mere coincidences. Engaged in a search without many signs of a solution, Alira will trace her new destiny, marked by the unexpected feeling that, really, everything that comes from then on is just what she was most strongly waiting for.
With a romantic touch that connects with that nostalgia for what will never come back, an unexpected love makes its way for us, a life-giving passion never as authentic as a lost valley turned into paradise.
You can now buy the novel «The heartbeat of the earth», the new book by Luz Gabás, here: