
Como los pájaros aman el aire
Siruela, 2016 | Like Birds Love the Air
Press
«Underneath a simple plot, a well-organized narrative structure and a refined (bordering at times on intimate) writing style providee powerful scaffolding to a novel that reflects on the very essence of being alive. This reaffirms Casariego as one of the most important writers of contemporary Spanish literature today.» Jorge Avilés-Diz, World Literature Today
“A novel is the sustained deployment of a tension. Given the anxiety that occurs between the first and the last page, a novel is also an exercise on waiting. And in Martín Casariego’s book, this is a wait with a luminous reward.” Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
«A virtuoso of the narrative art and an elegant practitioner of the Chekhovian principle whereby the full meaning of every detail is unveiled at a later point (…) A moving novel that imbues the Madrileño neighbourhood of Lavapies with a classical air.» Pachi Arroyo, Librújula
«An authentic novel about true love. Unequivocal. No half-measures. Pointblank. Emotions crossing the pages while dodging the bullets of reason. The author controls perfectly well the mechanisms of the sentimental puzle and manages to avoid the pieces falling apart or falling into the clutches of cheesy. Impossible not to fall in love with it.» Tino Pertierra, Zenda
Synopsis
(Like Birds Love the Air) The much anticipated new release from the 2014 Café Gijón Prize winner offers up a meditation on memory, love and art.
Fernando leads a solitary existence. On the run from his former life, he takes up residence in a small apartment in the neighbourhood of Lavapies. Grieving after his father’s death, Fernando roams the streets armed with a camera and a pair of glasses that belonged to the old man, seeking him out in the faces of the people he portrays. Thanks to his camera, he gets to know Irina, a young Lithuanian woman newly arrived in the capital. From that moment on, without turning his back on the ghostly puzzle of a dead man, he will find his life spiralling out of control as he tries to crack another, yet more mysterious puzzle: that of a living, breathing woman. In the background lurks a murky world in which anything can be bought for a price, but Fernando will not give up on the light that now brightens his days.
- Demasiado no es suficiente
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Yo fumo para olvidar que tú bebes
- Con las suelas al viento
- Escrito en el cielo. Madrid imaginada en la literatura (1977-2017)
- El capitán Miguel y Juan el Navegante
- El capitán Miguel y el misterio de la daga milanesa
- El juego sigue sin mí
- Un amigo así
- La jauría y la niebla
- Por el camino de Ulectra
- Nieve al sol
- Dos en una
- Campos enteros llenos de flores
- La primavera corta, el largo invierno
- Qué poca prisa se da el amor
- La hija del coronel
- El chico que imitaba a Roberto Carlos
- Mi precio es ninguno
- Y decirte alguna estupidez, por ejemplo, te quiero
- Algunas chicas son como todas
- Qué te voy a contar
- La colección «Pisco»
MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI