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Crisis: The roots are the last to dry

Crisis: The roots are the last to dry

Majfud, Jorge

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1956760253
ISBN13: 9781956760255
Publisher: Humanus
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Crisis is a mosaic novel whose protagonists are multiple and yet one. The mosaic is composed of different moments of the drama, anguish, and hopes of Hispanic immigrants in the United States in the context of the Great Recession. Physical violence, and above all, moral violence, permeate every moment of this novel, like the wind and silence through the tunnels of a troglodyte city. The characters are individuals and a collective. Each space, each stone is unique and represents, builds, and reflects the entire mosaic.

Rarely do I come away from a book with the certainty of having explored a solid, coherent, rich world, a true mosaic that, with the necessary perspective, reveals its beauty and gives access to a message that transcends the simple composition of its pieces. Rarely do I finish a book wishing I had written it, or encouraged to attempt similar adventures; a pleasure or miracle whose frequency the years have only managed to dull. Javier Couto, writer, Université Paris-Sorbonne.

Crisis is a harrowing book that presents a harsh story, full of injustice, pain, and abuse of power. It is a very rich work, teeming with dozens of characters trying to survive in a world governed by a ruthless economic system. Thus, Majfud's brilliant denunciation appeals to dignity and humanism in a bitter and discouraging story. Crisis is a splendid novel, skillfully constructed, that presents us with numerous ways to observe our times and find points of impact to transform them. Alberto García-Teresa, Revista Sur.

As the author himself has stated several times, few things are more real than fiction, because it is through this art form that we can experience the truth of emotions, the full complexity of the human being, a great and miserable creature tormented by its passions and its ideas. Crisis, the mosaic novel, is, in turn, a piece of that universal drama. Karen Barahona, Baldwin Wallace University.

A series of testimonies that reflect the hardships of Hispanic immigrants in the United States during the Great Recession, told in short, sharp, and at times violent texts, with a truly accomplished use of oral expression, make this text a moving, uncluttered, moralizing tale, an authentic reflection of how fiction can tell the truth. Guillermo Roz, Somos España

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