A novel about widespread fear, about the uncertainty that grips us in the face of climate change, the pandemic crisis and the possible end of the world, has been the winner of the Brief Library Award. ‘Safe Place’ by Isaac Rosa (Sevilla, 1974), one of the authors traditionally more in tune with the times we live in, has been the winner. The novel that “traps and bothers & rdquor; and that reflects the “moment of uncertainty in today’s society & rdquor; according to the jury, formed by Juan Manuel Gil, Pere Gimferrer, Benjamín Prado, Elena Ramírez and Andrea Stefanoni.
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Conceived as a picaresque novel, starring three characters, three generations of the same family -all called Segismundo- who seem to carry in their genes the profit from scams and shady affairsyes The last business, the one that will take the family to the long-awaited social ascent, is the sale of the safe place of the title for those obsessed with the idea of the end of the world that permeates the current discourse and to which the pandemic has only added more gasoline for the supposed final explosion.
Faithful to its postulates, Rosa, returns to invoice a novel with an important political weight, something that is already a constant in his literature and that points out that economic inequalities are fundamental when deciding who will be saved or not, if, indeed, the end of the world occurs. However, the author wanted to flee from the pamphleteering or instructive novel. “To avoid that I have used an unreliable narrator who points out the problems, exaggerating them, that any attempt at social transformation would face.”