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Os paxaros tamén migran ao sur

By Silverio Cerradelo

About this book

Jordi starts writing in a notebook about what happens in his relationship with Eva, a German girl that left an indelible impression on him. Everything started one fine day when he was having coffee at a cafeteria and saw a young woman enter with a bunch of those newspapers sold by the homeless under her arm. That was Eva. Everything gets complicated when, some time after meeting, she confesses that she is a prostitute because she needs heroine and that she has to go back to Hamburg to follow a detoxification programme. Os paxaros tamén migrant ao sur is a social novel. A transgressing love story in a big city, Barcelona, where human communication is not easy. It is a novel with a very careful setting and elegant eroticism, a novel that questions this post-modern comsumerist society, a novel that captivates us and takes us until the end in one go.

Book fragment

Today I start writing this notebook to remember the things that happened with Eva. I want to remember it all. If I can, all of it.

Because I need to speak about my relationship with Eva, about that year and a half of… life, I suppose, pure life.

But I don’t even know where to start.

It doesn’t matter. It will all come out, little by little.

Some years have gone by, more than four, now that I think about it, almost five.

It is incredible, even now I can remember the very natural gestures of Eva. Her gaze, green and grey. The first times I saw her as she had come into the world. And even now, still, I can feel that hit. Hit!... At the beginning I thought it would be a natural sorrow because of her death but, no, damn, I realised that it was something different, something else. Those days left something buried deep inside of me… really deep…, some restlessness I cannot cure.

And today I am writing to remember Eva, I am sorry. I can feel it in each cell in my body, in the core. That hit.