"Everyone has her hardships, and mine is always having to run away from something," says the protagonist of this novel, a woman in search of an impossible peace packed by encounters that immerse her in cavernous realities that seem like dreams. We see amazing, grotesque or simply hopeless characters parading in front of her. These are almost always fleeting encounters, which have the peculiar magical nature of encounters without a second chance. The protagonist does not shy away from any, because everyone can be the one who will put an end to her escape, and that full availability, so agreed, makes her almost disembodied.

Claudina Domingo has had the happy intuition that only a style between realistic and dreamlike can apprehend the complexity of such a character, and to him he remains faithful with a wealth of resources and an emotional tension that never decays, giving us a book full of poetry and suspense.

Fabio Morábito

"I didn't know he had a ghost. And a ghost who knows how to use the drill and the saw, I'm thinking as I return to the room, because it wasn't me who made those repairs. Or is it? Something's stiring in bed. I stand still on the doorstep of the room to spy on him. Shake the blankets and moan. It must be me, I couldn't get back. Without thinking twice I jump into bed determined to bring me back. I squeeze between my legs and hit my sides, but when I remove the blankets, Columba, terrified, leaps and escapes down the aisle. Now I've done worse. I squeeze the blankets. I hear, in the distance, a guttural song in which the gas cylinders that roll down the floor of the neighborhood aisle sneak in. I'll be right back. I relax in the abyss and wait. One by one, the drops are falling. I'll be right back. The puddle around me will soon cool me down. That'll bring me back. A fish passes between the fingers of my hand, and further down between my legs I intuyo algae. Anytime... Someone's swimming near me, it's heavy and fast. I return just in time; flipping: the jaws are near me. It barely gives me time to hit him with a saucepan and kick out fast. The good thing is, I'm cautious. If I hadn't brought the saucepan with me, maybe I'd be dead or worse by now."