La Palabrera

La Palabrera is the story of a town and its inhabitants who are faced with what could be understood as an event: the irruption of the unexpected in a world that seemed finished; the evidence of a transformation that comes with its opportunities for change, its premonitions and the need to decipher them. That place called Entre Voces, far from civilization, surrounded by two mountains and a volcano, one day wakes up with the news that Ismenia, the mute of the town (and who is one of the daughters of its founder), can speak. More precisely, what she does is pronounce four words that resemble the outline of a poem, a kind of unfinished rhyme that is waiting to be completed. She is a woman of ascetic life, who does the minimum; most of the time she is sitting in front of the window painting the landscape. In true Bartleby fashion, she revolutionizes everything around her. She, in her stillness, becomes a power that she transforms through words (those four words). Thus, her voice functions as an oracle, a prediction, a warning. A coded message, a puzzle that, when put together, would reveal her meaning and save us from the sinister.

This book is an open fable that reminds us that a few words said at the right time can change the course of a life.