Cuando se abrió el abismo | Carlos F. Castrosín | book new | sale

Carlos F. Castrosín

grupo Ajec : Albemuth | 2010

302 | 7h 10m

spanish | softcover | new | sale

23cm x 16cm | 470gr

Santiago Marchena lives a life in a straight line, boringly predictable, with a bland beginning and end. While working as an engineer, hundreds of meters under the Strait of Gibraltar, in the construction of the very long tunnel that will link Africa with Europe, a terrible earthquake occurs that destroys everything: the dump trucks, the tunnel boring machine, his colleagues, the boringly predictable straight line. Thus begins this epic, the thousand and one adventures in which, from that moment on, the young engineer will find himself involved, trying to save himself from the cataclysm that has just occurred, reaching places never before imagined by him. Through an intelligent combination of fast-paced episodes and reflective pauses, Castrosín achieves an admirable portrait of the protagonist's exploits in the depths of the Earth and of events that, such as the discovery of a lost world, fantastic cities, mysterious aircraft, new and unimaginable forms of life, will be crucial in the forging of his character through the pages of this novel. When the abyss opened is called to be one of the best works of Carlos F. Castrosín. Friendship, commitment, the resolution with which to face the difficulties of that lost and underground world and the relationships with its men and women are some of the themes that the author develops in this truly epic story, some of whose parts were already finalists for the Pablo Rido prize for fantastic short stories or the Ignotus prize for novels.