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ORCHESTA

Miqui Otero

A melody that mixes everything in that valley that dawns with the secrets unveiled on the meadow, as if a great hand had finally opened.

Valdeplata dawns after the summer festival. On the meadow, starling corpses, a torn ticket, a red bicycle, blood on a slipper. The orchestra played all night and children, young and old danced to the same songs, keeping different secrets. They were kept by the Count, an old man who could die at any moment (and with him an ancient world of magic and fear). Also Ventura, a lorry driver who finally took out his sequined dress, or Placeres, dreaming of revenge and forbidden loves. They danced and drank and seemed to be able to understand each other, old lovers, mortal enemies, lost youths. This story is told by the Music, which is inside and outside of each of them and also of you. A music that reminds the living that they are alive and that summons the dead.

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Book Published 2024-04-04 by PRG/Alfaguara

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Everything is in this verbena: sex, love, corruption, fear, childhood, the dead, magic and tradition. [...] Miqui Otero is one of the best storytellers of urban stories and, from this book, also of rural stories. He weaves it all together marvellously! [...] Read it because you won't stop singing.

A palpitating choral account of a summer festivity in a Galician village: [...] an outpouring of talent and empathy.

An electric tale written with magic and precision.

Unforgettable.

The magic of "Orquesta" is this dream of a night out in a Galician village. Otero achieves the most difficult thing yet: to dissolve himself into a dozen splendid protagonists who end up forming an astonishing collective and communal voice. A novel of novels in which the "we" speaks, the "I" listens and the characters take root around that writer who is not Miqui, but Miguel, the hinge that connects the ages that were and those that will be; the sentinel in the curve of life, in that fold that unites and at the same time separates the living from the dead, the countryside from the city, the ordinary from the supernatural. "Orchestra" is a phenomenal quantum leap. A choral and luminous portrait of a place that becomes a rapturous world of its own and yet also a common universe. It doesn't seem to be that easy to detach oneself from this colossal "Orchestra".

Miqui Otero has embarked on the task of telling the story of a summer night based on an unusual character, the music played by the orchestra during a concert in the village of Valdeplata. Otero's novel, which comes four years after the success of Simón, mixes the living and the dead, the young and the old, in a story that moves to the rhythm of the melodies played by the musicians.

One of the best writers of his generation.

Otero sets out, resolves and fits each piece into a formidable, finely tuned narration. It demands to be read aloud [...], it's a permanent invocation of the living and the dead, with the springs of Pedro Páramo.