Cròniques d'un mig estiu (La Fornal d'Espectacles)

Chronicles of a MidsummerCia. La Fornal d'espectacles (Balearic Islands)Friday, November 13 at 8 p.m.Club PollençaMaria Antònia Oliver became known with Chronicles of a Midsummer, her first novel. In it, she brings to life an eleven-year-old boy who leaves behind rural life to start working as a bellboy in a newly built hotel on the Mallorcan coast. It is the early 1960s and everything seems possible: progress, money, a different future.Through the child's eyes, we discover a new and fascinating world, but also deeply unequal. The hotel becomes a microcosm where workers, tourists, and dreams of prosperity coexist, while outside the landscape and way of life begin to disappear. Maria Antònia Oliver, already in the 1970s when this novel was published, warned us that we had started a path that could lead to disaster.Sixty years later, that summer persists as an open wound.