'The slow goodbye of the trams'

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The slow goodbye of the trams Huso Editorial a novel that appeared in its first edition in is the story of a passionate search. A young student of old local newspapers tries to find the whereabouts of an artist who disappeared in the post-war period and about whom he only has vague news from a long time ago. With the author we enter a city in which life runs between official reality conformism and the world of clandestine opposition. The risky research process is crossed by this contradictory reality full of dreams fears enthusiasms and desertions. We are faced with a rigorous novel that immerses the reader in a disturbing world: the last trams in Madrid the deterioration of the old Ciudad Lineal the uncertain geography of a changing city moving between a provincial past and a cosmopolitan vocation.

We are therefore facing an ambitious penetration into a part of our collective memory facing an immersion in the daily life of Franco's regime. With this novel Manuel Rico owner of a rich and precise prose at the same time full of registers and not exempt CXB Directory from lyrical highlights highlighted that he is the owner of his own universe crossed by many existential concerns. For this edition Manuel Rico has subjected The Slow Goodbye of the Trams to a profound and demanding revision in such a way that the reader is in essence faced with a renewed and lively work rigorously current which links with the impulses that in the culture and Spanish society bet against oblivion and forgetfulness. A necessary novel.



José María Merino narrator poet essayist and academic at the Royal Spanish Academy writes in the prologue of The Slow Goodbye of the Trams that " The main plot is organized around the effort of Mario Ojeda strongly supported by Eguren to reconstruct through the writing of his essay the life of Eladio Vergara an important republican plastic artist who was a friend of his uncle Elías Ojeda. Following this writing very difficult due to the strange lack of data from the Civil War they will weaving surprising events which the author will be able to unravel with brilliance without anything left to be resolved in the ambitious dramatic approach.” The reissue of this novel not only allows us to recover an excellent narrative text but also helps us to consider the level of quality of the genre when democracy had already established itself among us.