A delicate, sober, and vital book about family ties, absence, and writing. A dazzling elegy.
Ten years after his father's death, the narrator of this book decides to write it. With the shadow of suicide that denies mourning, he wonders: is it possible to find the words for a farewell that never happened? Thus, this personal and intimate story becomes a quest to understand how family bonds are forged, what silence condemns, and where the truth of a story hides.
But writing fails, and the author turns to the biographies of writers who took their own lives and their final notes to reconstruct a possible, tentative farewell. Only through a polyphonic and choral narration will he be able to return to the forgotten corners of his own life, where memory becomes emptiness.
Relíquia then transforms into a family chronicle that contains a reflection on the arrival at writing and the meaning of creation; a text about death and absence that leads to the brightest moments of friendship and love. With a restrained style, without twists, Pol Guasch has built a delicate and vital book: a dazzling elegy.
