La llamada de los olores

Through her writing, Ryoko Sekiguchi seeks to capture what fades away, ethereal sensations: smells, tastes, voices we will never hear again. If in Nagori she explored taste and in The Shadow Voice she focused on hearing, now, in The Call of Scents, she addresses the most subtle of our senses: smell. As we know, at least since Proust and his madeleine, smell is a powerful trigger for memories, capable of activating those buried deep within us for years. Each scent has a body and a language, a presence capable of disrupting our relationship with time and space, and with this idea, Sekiguchi constructs a hybrid narrative that, in the style of One Thousand and One Nights, weaves together short stories set in different eras and places: Granada in the present, Ferrara in the 18th century, 19th-century Tehran, Paris throughout the centuries…