The cards that we deal, by Ramón Gallart

A successful metaphor between the cards on the table and what life finally has. Chance and what each one proposes once entered into the game of life. Going bluffing can be the most successful move but it is always good to be able to cheat, as long as they are not solitary.

In the case of Hugo, his thing is to always raise the bid and even break the deck if necessary. Because in that of looking for the best partner with which to aim towards success at the end of the game, our protagonist can take cards out of his sleeve to escape a monotonous game when one simply throws the cards to throw.

And it is not only about love that I indicate about couples. In this novel all the encounters are pairings from nascent passions, from friendship or from the most complete coincidence. And the author takes advantage of this to bare the soul of his characters with a hint of magical realism. There is no pretense, histrionics or overacting. Only the author's commitment to give whole life to those who accompany us on the journey of his existence. And that is achieved as if we already knew each character from some other life. Because naturalness in this novel is like a gift towards immediate empathy.

Undoubtedly, the characters in this plot interact with a magical sensation of verisimilitude and closeness that predispose us to live the most intense adventures. Because little by little the story progresses towards entanglements of all kinds. That of chance, the cards they play and the audacity of each player to launch their order or fake their poker.

And in those, Hugo's role serves as a biographical excuse. Everything revolves around a Hugo who lives a thousand and one daily adventures of the most classic hustler in literature. A guy at times with his flashes of hero (defining hero as anyone who simply does what he can) but also with his miseries between nihilistic evocations. Hugo's characterization has everything to fit with the contradictions of every son of a neighbor.

The plot is taking shape like a cyclone about to catch Hugo. Characters like Cris or Manolo are giving support to a precipitous evolution of events that place them over unsuspected abysses when the story takes off. The result is an explosion, a reality loaded with dynamite in its foundations and that ends up exploding, on the one hand, while it also implodes from within a character like Hugo who played his cards to the maximum. For better or worse.

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