Stillness

In the setting of an island in the Mediterranean, two women recall their lives while talking in the whitewashed patio of a village house. They are Margalida, an old white-haired narrator, and Celeste, her dark-skinned assistant.

With a luminous and leisurely cadence, Margalida narrates her uneventful life: the supposed treasure hidden in a cove, the strange death of her mother, the disordered life of her father in the theater, her murky affairs, the beautification of nature, the long trips... She also tells Celeste about the passion she felt for her husband who, his obsessive dedication to Sanskrit and Hinduism, and the nameless friendship with his brother-in-law.

During the conversation, the grandiose and exuberant world of Celeste emerges, shaken by wars and injustices, with huge rivers full of crocodiles, clearly showing what separates these women of such different ages and cultures. Through the dreams, experiences and illusions so distant between them, the author proposes a novel in which the improbable ends up being everyday.

"I'm interested in showing what happens when, apparently, nothing happens.", Jordi Coca