Estival
Guillermo Aguirre
FICTION | 2025 | 260 pages
"To be born every summer: to come into the world every vacation season. What is life for someone like you, who has only known how to find it in carefree pleasures? A handful of vacations; that's life. A constant present made up of vignettes that are summers, splashes of light, scratches of pleasure."
This is Estival: the unfolding of the past, present, and future life of a man named Jonás, who could very easily be many men, narrated through all his summers in a small town in northern Spain, which could very easily be so many other towns. From 1984 to 2045, we witness a rural chronicle of our time that encompasses wonder and enjoyment of everyday life, family, friendship, and love, but also dashed dreams, uncertainty about the future, and the difficulty to accept fears.
With exuberant and evocative language, Guillermo Aguirre's new novel brings us back to that great beauty of childhood summers, reclaiming a sense of belonging, the perfection of simplicity, the care for others, and the joy in contemplating what is beautiful. A simple life: the town, summer.
RIGHTS: spanish EDITORIAL SEXTO PISO
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“An exquisitely written and conceptualized novel. Some of the best and most original Spanish prose. Not reading Guillermo Aguirre is unforgivable. ”
“Estival challenges the reader in the way only great literature can.”
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