Ézaro Ediciones, 2009, Novel. 267 pages

Coral novel about emigrants from Galicia that takes place between 1946 and 1953.

“In this land, in this moment, there is no future for me”, says Eusebio to his father. We are in 1946 and Eusebio decides to move to Brazil. His life there, first in Santos –where he is mercilessly exploited by an unscrupulous employer- and later in Sao Paulo is not what he was expecting.

But in Brazil he meets other emigrants: Raimundo, a skilful card player; Regina, a prostitute of whom he falls in love; Amancio, the owner of a night club…

The novel takes also place in a parallel way in a fishing village in Galicia, where Eusebio’s family remained. There we meet Pepe, who helps the maquisards fighting Franco’s regime until one of his relatives reports him to the police.

And between Galicia and Brazil we find Jaime, who had migrated before the Civil War and now might face a military trial if he returns as he would like to do.

Emigration seen from both the points of view of the ones who leave and the ones who stay; of the ones who ‘make it’ and the ones who fail, as the plans of all of them keep changing or vanishing.

Published by: Spanish worldwide Ézaro Editions