As médulas

Juan and Sara have grown apart recently and decide to separate for a while. Juan wants to feel that there is something outside him in life, something that moves him, forcing him to take part in the world, to make his own decisions and to not simply be swept along. He goes temporarily to live in the village of Voces, where he meets José and Sara, two people with their own personal dramas. Sara’s silence, the quiet complicity between them and the power of the scenery will help Juan to achieve this life awakening. Sara, meanwhile, is going through her own process of revision and change, and all four of them will end up meeting in the centre of the earth. With a voice of her own that ensnares the reader and a narrator who speaks to us from the minds of the four characters, Bardelás weaves a story that examines human relationships and love at such difficult times…