OUR NOVEL OF REFERENCE: "LAS LARGAS SOMBRAS"

The students participating in the project, should read the novel "Las largas sombras" ("The long shadows") by Elia Barceló

ARGUMENT / SUMMARY The long shadows 
Rita just found her friend Lena dead in the bathroom of his home. From the outset, the police ruled out suicide. This is apparently a murder, and although no one can quite figure out the motive, the victim's friends become the prime suspects. All of them, who just turned 50, are known since adolescence and share a terrible secret buried deep in his past. Gradually the friends will have each other's misery and obsessions, his unfulfilled dreams, hopes, and take the reader to the year 1974, when he made a trip to prom with other partners of the same class and will lead the point starting from a nightmare that will never wake up. With a skillful and very personal mix of genres, The long shadows of the book goes beyond police, the portrait of an era or the nostalgic sentimentality of its protagonists. What is here pound is a battle to the death with the life that has been lived.

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