Review of ‘Hamits and the Interpreter’ by Felipe Henríquez.

How often we say that books choose us. And how right we are. But sometimes we are also chosen by certain circumstances that are much less pleasant than reading, such as losing a loved one. And these two facts may be closely related to Hamits and the interpreter of Felipe Henriquez.

The reading that I present below is a work that its author, Felipe Henríquez, has conceived for share your experiences as a mediumSpecifically, those that you have had with people to whom you have transmitted messages from your loved ones or guides who are in what we have been calling the beyond. But also his own, how he found himself having these extrasensory experiences. The work, Hamits and the interpreteris published by Luciérnaga and for me it is a signal book that arrives when it has to arrive.

I had just lost my grandmother. People lose other people constantly in this world of comings and goings (and I don’t mean metaphorically), but perhaps the ones that hurt the most are the ones that have no explanation. Two days before my best friend’s wedding, while I was looking for the last accessories for the wedding on one of the most commercial streets in my city, I received a call that left me shaking in the middle of it: Grandma had died. In silence, sitting on the floor of her room, for no apparent reason. I cannot explain the pain that went through me in those moments, alone, in a city that is not mine, and how I doubled over in front of the gaze of people who did not understand what was happening to me. The days after I was a zombie. And the few times I went on social media I saw Mamen, the person through whom I met Hamits and Felipe, share stories about this book. I don’t know how or why, but Mamen, at some point in that blurry time, told me “I’ll send it to you.” And I understood that through him I could find some more peace.

Hamits and the interpreter by Felipe Henríquez is not an instruction manual on how to communicate with the Beyond nor a medical brochure. But in it we find testimonies where, in some way, we understand that Our loved ones continue to take care of us and where we look at the “death” a little more directly. I’m just reading an extraordinary book, about a doctor who works in palliative care, entitled Life before death which also implies that There are certain things that science cannot explain.and even less so Medicine.

If I had to summarize Hamits and the interpreter of Felipe Henriquez In one word it would be paz. It answers questions that we have not dared to ask and we witness, without necessarily having to be the protagonists (which is sometimes scary), how others have received messages from those who left with or without a farewell. In the end, it warns us that there is something beyond (now without capital letters) and that this life, surely, has a meaning. For me, it has always been the meaning of love. And love is also daring to write about these topics, as Felipe has done.

I hope your book finds you, when it needs to find you.