Evasión

Four elderly residents of a retirement home reminisce about the joy they felt in their youth, when they would go swimming naked in the river every summer. Motivated by this happy memory, they embark on a daring escape, a flight, in search of that joy they long to recapture. This luminous, funny, simple, and joyful novel speaks of second chances and the energy, vitality, and fulfillment found in all stages of life. Can there be love after eighty? Can there be freedom after that point on the calendar? Is it worth trying? Escape is a novel brimming with imagery and hope; it is also the story of some elderly people who decide to rebel against the idea of ​​living in a retirement home as if they were in a parking lot, unable to keep up with the frenetic pace of the society we have created. It is a dream to be fulfilled: to swim naked in the river again, like when they were children and summers seemed endless. And it is, in short, an adventure back to childhood in which each character, in addition to their age and limitations, contributes their experience, humor, energy, and their way of facing problems and their dreams for life. A tender, vibrant, luminous novel that, with its clean and simple prose, encourages us to be aware of the privilege of living and to do so, always, with a smile.