Deaf Souls

It's hot in Fornals. The speaker of the inaugural session of the Summer University does not appear. There are bad omens ...

This is the beginning of the plot of Les ànimes sordes. Fast-paced and dynamic, Albert Villaró's novel is a smoke-free fun, as fresh as the marinade that should alleviate the blizzard of Fornals afternoons. This second edition of the novel is the rescue of his first novel, a hilarious end-of-century classic that follows, we do not know if unfortunately, fully valid in many ways. There is a parody of the stereotypes of the noir novel, transferred here to rural areas, as well as some "truths of life" that the author passes on to us.