Ана на ґанку

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Late February 2022 the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Viktor Romanovsky a literary translator from Spanish living in a suburb of Kyiv finds himself in a situation where he must help a neighbor evacuate her and her children from under shelling. This is how he ends up in Poland and soon afterward in a small mountain town in southern Spain where he continues working on his translation of the novel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2666</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Roberto Bolaño's dark epic predicted to become a herald of 22nd-century literature.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The search for the mysterious writer Archimboldi the serial murders of women in the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the U.S.-Mexico border and much else become intertwined in Romanovsky's mind with the events unfolding in his homeland. Unexpectedly he too finds himself drawn into a search-this time for a painting he happens to come across in the Prado Museum...</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the deeply lyrical narrative </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ana on the Porch</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> literature becomes both a refuge and a battlefield as well as the inspiration for a love the protagonist certainly did not expect to find in Spain-yet found nonetheless.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is a kind of meditation an attempt to answer the question of what it means to live create and love during a bloody war fought for the right to be free.</span></p><p></p>