La prima Rosamund

'Si te dicen que caí' Juan Marsé instala el lector en un tiempo brutal y alucinado - la España de los años cuarenta - y, mediante el prodigioso artefacto narrativo de las 'aventis', rescata una memoria que le había sido falseada, adulterada y escamoteada. Pensando solamente en los anónimos vecinos de un barrio pobre que ya no existe en Barcelona, en los furiosos muchachos de la posguerra que compartieron conmigo las calles leprosas y los juegos atroces, el miedo, el hambre y el frío.

Años después de la desaparición de Sara, el peligro vuelve para demostrar que, en realidad, nunca se fue. Ha esperado agazapado bajo el paso del tiempo, esperando una señal que le indique cuando actuar. Algunos personajes se enfrentan a sus tinieblas, a esos ecos de un pasado doloroso, que les cuesta dejar atrás. Mientras que otros son los causantes de esas vidas tenebrosas.

Born in a fishing town in a wealthy Jewish family, Mary Magdalene showed, since her first years, an unusual desire of knowledge. It was also in her childhood when the visions began, a fact that would label her life forever. Dedicated to a long and tortuous process of spiritual transformation, she escaped to the desert. There her destiny crossed with that of a young prophet, Jesus, whose words would help her.

Daniel has long been lost in his drug addiction and discouragement. Claude still believes that by working hard you can achieve something. The two live in Brussels and are dedicated to emptying houses of deceased people, most of them without relatives or from homes so poor that nobody wants to take charge of the move. Kasongo was someone in his country, but here he is lame, poor and has lost his lucky charm. Chantal is an exhausted single mother, burdened with responsibilities, fed up with her precarious life and the lack of a future, also for her little girl. Until Daniel finds in a house...