Edimáter

Marcos, in the sixth form at school, has started writing a diary describing his days since the moment his mother was diagnosed with cancer. While he is immersed in his studies, he tries to understand his father (a freelance journalist who has just arrived from Central America); he feeds the unconditional love he feels for his grandmother, going as far as preventing his parents from taking her to an old people’s home; he wants to help his mother, but has to overcome a certain difficulty in telling her what he feels and thinks; and, lastly, his life at school becomes an space of intense personal relationships both with his friends and some teachers.

In this novel, the omniscient narrator harmoniously combines three points of view (Marcos’s diary, a collective blog set up by the Language teacher in which his students take an active part, and Marcos’s father’s account) with which he creates a coherent and emotional whole; because, as Marcos believes, adversities are useful to grow as a person.

Available only in Spanish.  

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