Modern Musketeers in a beat up pickup truck, four friends in crisis maturity embark on an unlikely journey to snatch a little 'time of existence and to reaffirm its desire for rebellion and fun. Solo, twenty-seven oppressed by parents too perfect and the memory of an ex who is about to get married; Blass, fat and clumsy, to lash a search for love, Claudio, Tombeur de femmes who lives only for his friendship, Raul, precipitated S & M fantasies in a quiet family menage twins with dependents. A van second-hand odor of cheese, the four decide to indulge in August by a lion, illusory compensation from everyday life. From Madrid to Valencia from Zaragoza to Madrid again, through a trail of fights, drinking, broken hearts and hasty embrace, strengthen their friendship in a late-late teens. A kaleidoscope of adventures, a novel acid and melancholy that the pace of the best movies. Having read and adored "Open all night", it seemed unthinkable not to read this other book by David Trueba, sure that I would be confronted with another masterpiece.
And partly, it certainly is, although completely different from the first novel. Four Friends, on the threshold of thirty years, decided to leave for two weeks holiday adventure on an old van that smells of cheese. "The long journey to the Pussy", "Journey to the Center of the thighs," "around the ass in Eighty Days," "Twenty Thousand Leagues subnormal ... plausible are the titles for their adventure. But what actually is missing, or "escape from the failures, fears and problems" afflicting so differently and with different results each of the protagonists. There Raúl, SM enthusiast, who finds himself married with twins and small, profound and constant struggle between his desire to have fun and a sense of family which was swept away. There Blass, fat too good and naive that it is precisely because of its goodness is destined to remain forever the best friend any girl he meets, there's Claudio, perhaps the most enterprising of the four, "scopavecchie and lover animals. And then there's only (yes, like that of Star Wars), voice and heart of the whole affair. Choked full of expectations from their parents against him, restless spirit, which still does not know what he wants from his life. And most of all love, still in love with Barbara, who is about to marry a man who is the opposite of him. A travel adventure, searching for themselves in the company of the only people who can really bear: friends.
The book follows the adventures of these four boys on holiday, including colorful characters, fucked hasty achievements impossible and incredible bad luck, going to tourist sites, beaches and abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere, and ends at the feast of the marriage of Barbara .
Trueba's style I like, I like his humor, his good dose of cynicism (perhaps a little excessive at times, but still acceptable) and its characterization of the characters and situations. And it is beautiful the idea of \u200b\u200btraveling with old friends (who all, at least once in their life, I'm sure we did), despite putting up the the numerous defects and phobias. And there are so many phrases that I have been in this novel (one more beautiful than the quotes from "Written on napkins at the end of each chapter).
But a flaw has it. We talk and it really gets too much sex ... some mention cheaper, and some less explicit scene and the book might have been even more appreciated.
It remains a book I recommend.
Note to the translation: not bad. A few notes, but perhaps essential for those who are not or do not know English.
"It 's curious, people are able to change their breasts, nose, lips, but no would think of changing the brain. Almost all could improve it, and instead the brain continues to keep the deception, making us believe that we can not have a better one. E 'overrated organ, without a shadow of doubt "
" When you get a kiss on the cheek by a woman who kissed a thousand times on the lips, you know you lost your place in his heart "
" We are saws that can be slapped as well as slapping that seem to kiss "
" Fail as fast as you can, so you'll have time in life to take back "
" His friends believe that love you is to accept as you are: you're right, all right, when you really need someone to scream that you're wrong, you have to change. "
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