Life not only passes as frames shortly before the veil of the shocking final light (if something like that really happens, beyond famous speculations about the moment of death). In fact, our film assails us at the most unexpected moments. It can happen behind the wheel to draw us a smile for that fantastic day years ago, as perfect as it is idealized...
Our movie It finds us in blank moments, during routine tasks, in the middle of an inconsequential wait, shortly before sleep. And it may be that the same memory has a revision of his script or a correction of the direction of the film, with his seat somewhere in our minds.
Cristian Alarcón tells us about his protagonist's film in the most vivid and precious way possible. So that we can feel to the touch and even smell those evocations of life that was and the way of seeing life from that debt. To understand certain protagonists is to understand ourselves. That is why literature will always be necessary.
A writer cultivates his garden on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Until there come the memories of his childhood in a town in southern Chile, the stories of his ancestors, his grandmother, his mother. Also the exile to Argentina and how in that exile it is the women who sow the orchard, the gardens, the solidarity, the collective.
A genderless, hybrid and poetic novel, to read The Third Paradise is to enter in an instant the universe of Cristian Alarcón, author of this literary, botanical and feminist journey that, far from exhausting itself on a first reading, asks us to return to the text in order to answer the many questions it poses.
“Set in various places in Chile and Argentina, the protagonist reconstructs the history of his ancestors, while delving into his passion for cultivating a garden, in search of a personal paradise. The novel opens a door to the hope of finding a refuge in the small in the face of collective tragedies.
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