The bend in the river The bend of the river is one of those books that one reads in one go and that leaves you with a placid smile on his lips. For the simplicity of the story, establishing empathy with the characters, the scenarios that are crossed and lots more. The scenarios referred to are those that one is lucky enough to live and also were present in other previous novel Pedro AmorĂ³s, Under the arch in ruins. is the case of the street Montijo de Murcia, which again is an axis fundamental in history, as occurs with the same characters, listed in both books. There are elements that are repeated as a constant: the arches, ruins, tragedies grecolatinas, books ... Yet you can read separately perfectly.
Blindness, linked to a dreadful solitude, is the absolute protagonist. Similarly, sadness is present which isolates and strangles and locks themselves to these people passing through the common mole Montijo road. Calan very deep characters: the blind Luis Cerezo, the prostitute Dorothy Pineda, Vada, the girl-seeing-eye or grandmother Lucia, the only light in the life of the blind until the arrival of two other women. Also the strange Doctor Mabuse, author of the book under the provocative title Dodsworth.
the end of each chapter, as a constant litany is inserted international news events the day on which the story takes place daily during the summer of 2007. News that sound like when you watch television without hearing it and actually shrink the stories of everyday life. But the reader, such as watching television without seeing it, it stays with the complexity of everyday life, with things happening around that, only in appearance, may look simple things. As the simple tragedies lived in solitude for so many that exist in the world. Or as small cornered by news headlines that dominate the pages of newspapers.
Everything ends with the vision of a magnificent painting, a landscape of Patinir Prado Museum, with a master fund blue.