Andrea Abreu, born in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife in 1995, spent six years completing her latest novel following the success of ‘Pants of Burro’ (Barrett, 2020). «No wanted to,» explains «write out of obligation or maintain a machine that demanded me to deliver a book every two years.» «I would rather wait for something to cross my path again.» In Pajaritos preñados (Anagrama), that something was an expression of his grandfather, which would eventually become the title, one of those impossible images that get stuck in the imagination until they demand a story. «When an idea crosses my mind and I can’t understand the mechanisms behind it or why it keeps coming back, I feel the need to dissect it, to know why it affects me emotionally,» she explains via video call from her home in Tenerife.
Siete años después del acontecimiento ‘Panza de burro’, la autora publica ‘Pajaritos preñados’: una novela que trata sobre la infancia, la imaginación y las vidas que surgen en los márgenes de la oralidad canaria, en la que no hay víctimas perfectas.
Andrea Abreu, born in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife in 1995, spent six years completing her latest novel following the success of ‘Pants of Burro’ (Barrett, 2020). «No wanted to,» explains «write out of obligation or maintain a machine that demanded me to deliver a book every two years.» «I would rather wait for something to cross my path again.» In Pajaritos preñados (Anagrama), that something was an expression of his grandfather, which would eventually become the title, one of those impossible images that get stuck in the imagination until they demand a story. «When an idea crosses my mind and I can’t understand the mechanisms behind it or why it keeps coming back, I feel the need to dissect it, to know why it affects me emotionally,» she explains via video call from her home in Tenerife. «When thinking about this story, something very physical would happen to me: my stomach would tighten, I would feel excited and at the same time scared.» I had some characters that had to reach a certain point, and as time went on, more and more ideas kept forming in my head until, in the end, a longer novel came out.» That phrase from your grandfather opened up a universe where precariousness coexists with fantasy, violence with tenderness, and material life with an imagination that refuses to accept its limits. At the center is Cathaysa, a teenager who navigates a whirlwind year of events, with the intense sentimentality of a soap opera and the extravagance of someone who still doesn’t know where the world ends. The text can be paraphrased as:
A community of characters surrounds you, seemingly destined to stumble upon their own limitations.
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