Begoña Oro came to mind an image as surreal as great: a mother who appears by surprise at her daughter’s house making the croquette When unrolling a carpet. «It was so powerful, that I dedicated my entire novel to find out where it came from. When I discovered it, everything fit, ”he tells ABC. The result is ‘new shoes and almond soup’ (Plaza & Janés), its debut in adult literature, a Romantic comedy in which laughter is intertwined with a deep reflection on day to day, relationships and generational shocks.
Gold was very present to his mother and the carpet when he pointed to a Nanowrigimo (National Novel Writing Month). «This is a kind of worldwide marathon that aims Write a novel in a monthcrazy, go. Then you can spend years correcting it, as it happened to me, ”he explains.
In fact, the book began years ago, when gold was not yet a mother, but she parked her to devote himself entirely to the Children’s literature. However, he continued around his head, and he resumed her with a new perspective when his son, who had dedicated many of his books, asked him when he reached 18 years: “Are you not going to write for me anymore?”
«The dedication Carmen Martín Gaite took me with the one that he put in ‘love uses of the Spanish postwar period’: ‘For all Spanish women, between 50 and 60 years, who do not understand their children. And for their children, who do not understand them. ‘ The protagonist is replaced by many things about her mother, but makes a bold effort to understand her. In the novel there are no bad mothers, or horrible daughters, only Mothers and children trying to love Goodly, although it is not easy daily, ”he says.
With more than 100 published books and a consolidated career in children’s and youth literature, Begoña Oro has been awarded the Cervantes Chico 2024 award for its career. However, he does not consider this book to be a “jump” to adult literature, but rather a side somersaultwhich does not imply any rise and matches them in importance. That is why its seal is still present in history through humor, tenderness and unusual situations. «It has been inevitable, I’m afraid. A baritone is baritone and sing an Aryan or a cradle song. I can’t and do not want to change the voice, ”he says.
The author thinks that all this forms an approach to exciting life and, despite seemingly light, “between laughter and smile, ‘with a little sugar’, as Mary Poppins said, there is also reflection.”
A navel
The link between Victoria and his mother is the axis of the novel. Faced between the desire for independence and the need for careits relationship is a reflection of how motherhood leaves an indelible mark. «Never, never, can get a mother. One can pretend detachment, launch screams, move to the other side of the ocean, but nothing more. A mother is a navel, and no one has invented or invent how to remove it, ”writes gold in the novel.
‘New shoes and almond soup’ also explores other issues that go through everyday life, such as mental health. Through the characters, the author exposes situations such as depression, psychological therapy and the importance of asking for help. «What was my mother to know, who knew the life of the father’s father’s brother, but I didn’t see closely. If we are all genetically scheduled not to end up seeing closely, ”the protagonist thinks at a time.
The shadow of ill -treatment also looms. «Many times they are obscured, silenced, in that great catacumba that can be a family. It seems a lie that still today ‘Dirty rags are washed at home’ Be, according to the Cervantes Virtual Center on its use score, a Expression ‘of current use’», Denounce.
Labor precariousness is embodied in Victoria, the young protagonist who studied journalism, but who sells train tickets in Atocha. «I fear that, as in life, precariousness is a backdrop for a story that aims to be naive -free luminous. There are many difficulties that youth is now facing, ”justifies the writer.
With ‘New shoes and almond soup’, Gold is launched to the conquest of a new audience without losing its essence. A perfect novel for lovers of romantic comedy who are looking for more than a love story: a tender and lucid look on family, life and the passage of time. Because, in the end, history is not only about mothers and children, precarious jobs or love relationships. Talk about How we face maturity. «We need to rescue that illusion that led us to write letters to the Magi. We need that Hopeful and clean look Of those who are not yet back of everything, so I like to approach the children. That is also about the novel, ”reflects the writer.
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