La escalera de agua

Abraham García offers a new collection of stories written with the same quality and literary rigor he demonstrated in 'Segar los cielos' (Reaping the Skies), his previous book. Shaped by extensive reading and the oral narratives that filled his childhood nights, his stories are characterized by the vigor and credibility conveyed by his characters. Many of them hold a mystery, sometimes dark, sometimes luminous, but always surprising. With a direct and precise style, the fruit of a slow maturation, he explores the constraints of chance, which can be embodied in both a wave and a roulette wheel, transforms a racetrack into the entire universe, or chooses a water staircase as an act of freedom. This is a collection of stories that, like the best after-dinner conversations, linger in the memory.