"From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered and heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls into the arms of Helga, an older woman, in a cross-generational encounter that is the heart of the tale. With sensitivity and biting wit, Trueba crafts a story of errant souls and lost loves, humorously critiquing male narcissism, all the while showing us that in this modern age it is more important than ever to appreciate every moment and embrace intimacy when luck allows it, no matter from where"--
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Una lectura liviana y descontracturada, pero no por ello carente de profundidad o ausente de brillantez. El autor nos propone recorrer el camino de olvidar a Marta, conocer a Helga, recordar a Marta e intentar olvidar a Helga, todas tareas que en su momento resultan imposibles pero que maduran de forma casi imperceptible a lo largo del desarrollo. Como en la vida misma, el relato absorbe esos hechos cruciales con naturalidad, de forma casi imperceptible: de golpe lo que parece imposible no solo es posible, sino que ya ha ocurrido y forma parte del pasado.
Excelente lectura, recomendable.
