Drift skin
by Paula Farias
In the Mediterranean, in the days leading up to the Arab Spring, three sea wolves from very different backgrounds strive to maintain a farce under the watchful eye of the international community. It will be the starting point of a plot in which, with the sea as the guiding thread, the lives of diverse characters intersect, who stand up to rules that do not understand refugees, wars or misery. A modern Odyssey, with modern pirates, rescue ships and captains in a world of men, which reveals the fissures of a system that, under its appearance of order, is allowing reality and life to escape through its cracks.
Piel de deriva is a fiercely personal novel in which Paula Farias, based on her own experiences, speaks to us about resistance, where silences count as much as words, and where the reader, as in the best works of Joseph Conrad, can come to feel rocked by the sea and an accomplice, with the certainty that if she continues sailing, she will reach a port that she does not know, but that will be worth it.
Paula Farias is a doctor, humanitarian worker and storyteller who tells stories in stories, books, songs and poems. After a few years sailing with Greenpeace, she began working for Doctors Without Borders in the Balkan war, which later led her to coordinate emergencies in natural disasters, epidemics and armed conflicts, including the Kosovo war, an experience that is reflected in her first novel, “Dejarse llover” (2005), which Fernando León de Aranoa would later adapt to the big screen with the title “A perfect day” and which would win the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2004, she published the book of stories “Déjate contar un cuento” and, in 2021, “Fantasmas azules”, set in the war in Afghanistan. After presiding over Doctors Without Borders, he launched the rescue operations that the organization deployed in the Mediterranean to respond to a crisis that continues to this day and underlies the pages of «Piel de deriva». Also available from Paula Farias in AdN: «Fantasmas azules»
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