warning the reader: it reads is not a journalistic investigation on one of the tragedies that marked the lives of families and citizenship around the ABC daycare in Hermosillo Sonora. This is a novel that explores the existence of a group of people who were touched by a fire that could be avoided either directly or indirectly.
49 white crosses is a novel of fiction that does not lose the documentary record of what happened in the fire, even allows the reader to have a broader context of what happened at the ABC day care, from that 5 June 2009 until 2014 , time in which the novel is located.
In the book, the reader will witness “the inability of the State to be able to protect their interests and power groups, as well as the inability to” establish a legal truth, said in interview for political Animal, Imanol Caneyada, author of 49 white crosses.
“A case like the ABC daycare, which had to be moved to such a degree that the State itself had to have reacted and did not do so, confirmed its vocation of failed State. In the end, not let be a failed State because if it does not establish a legal truth, not set a clear investigation, precise and relentless, then do we need in this country to make the apparatus of Justice work? “, asks.
The six chapters are part of psychological, emotional and social exploration which meant the tragedy for a city like Hermosillo, to its inhabitants and “the value of those stories that goes beyond journalism and documentary issues”.
It was not literature, it was a kind of therapy Caney is a black novel, a literary genre that is used to write, and that allowed him to plunge into the characters, in the emotional and social wounds “through a narrator in the sewers of a” Government that he denied, denied the ABC child care parents and relatives of children and denied us as a society the chance to change the course and trying to be another kind of society”.
At the beginning – has the author – could not find the way to tell the story because dragged it itself pain and indignation. The first version of the first chapters was not literature, was a kind of therapy, was a scream. It was not the way to tell the story until he understood that he had to tell what had happened three years later.
“The Narrator voice is the common thread in the history. The eyes of the Narrator protagonist becomes the tragedy this cynicism and indifference, and this valemadrismo which, as you are coming into contact with the actors of this tragedy and the victims, comes into contact with the horror of that system to cover camouflage and say: this was what happened. It turns and enters that pain,”the author said.
Remember despite the pain for Imanol, read 49 white crosses is to remember despite the painful it’s novel. Our first reaction to pain is normally lock it, close your eyes and turn your back. The country is in a no-win situation that the only real possibility we have to rebuild ourselves as a society is to have a full awareness of what has happened, said.
The fire at the ABC daycare center realizes the boredom of society and the fatigue of being a country of victims that even given the consolation of a legal truth, of Justice.
As he cries out the motto of the parents of the child care: no forgiveness, no forgetting; Justice ABC, “are three things that summarize everything, overview not only the tragedy of the nursery but also other tragedies.” It seems to me that literature is a tool that can keep this awareness alive and somehow feed something that we mobilize as a society, that will make us wake up from this morass that does not close his wounds and still bleeding. We can hide, close my eyes, but there is,”he said.
Before entering journalism Imanol Caneyada studied Theater at the school of theatre of Montreal and in the Centre of art dramatic A. C. (CADAC) in city of Mexico and then, in the Centre of theatrical training, thus developing a vocation focused on theatre and d address.
Some time later, began to dabble in the media, mainly in the North, in Sonora with different media. He currently works in the foreground. He directed and wrote in cultural supplements, made cultural journalism at Excelsior, El imparcial and El Independiente.
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