Effervescence and nostalgia: a novel about friendship in a world headed for collapse.
Rita lives in the Colony, high on a mountain where weary men empty a mine that is running out. From there, she watches the village sunk in the valley, and the forests that suddenly begin to burn. Líton, who grew up in the city, puts out the fires with the other boys from the Service.
This novel follows the story of the two friends: childhood in opposite settings, the discovery of desire, their loves with Fèlix and René – and the nostalgia for a future that will no longer be. Together they experience emancipation and the festive effervescence of their twenties, but also the bonds of family and an era marked by extinction: what will the buzzing of a bee be like? In a world heading toward collapse, where life cannot be lived, Rita and Líton turn friendship into a pact to imagine a livable universe.
Pol Guasch has written a book in which every dose of pain has its dazzling reverse, and every ending foretells a new beginning. Disorderly like memory, dark and bright at the same time, En las manos, el paraíso quema is melancholic as only witnessing the fade to black of the world’s youth can be.
