Madrid kills me by Elvira Sastre

Synopsis

Elvira Sastre’s most personal book, as tender and intimate as it is vindictive.

From the 8M 2019 demonstration to the hard months of confinement, from bike rides through Retiro to the family bars of La Latina or the hustle and bustle of Rastro, from LGBTI+ pride to the hectic cultural life of the capital: Madrid me eyes It is the Madrid of Elvira Sastre, a Segovian woman who came to the city eight years ago to make it her own: here she has celebrated love and cried for losses; She has known her neighborhoods and known when it was time to leave the streets of Malasaña to look for a house with views of the sky.

Madrid me eyes It covers more than two years in the life of Elvira Sastre. Based on the columns she wrote for The country From September 2018 to November 2020, the poet and winner of the 2019 Biblioteca Breve Award has shaped her most personal book, as tender and intimate as it is vindictive, in a very careful edition that includes color photographs, poems, letters and content written for the occasion.

About the book

It has been almost a decade since Elvira Sastre arrived in Madrid from Segovia wanting to take on the world and in discovering its streets she has also ended up knowing herself better: here she has celebrated love and mourned losses; she has danced and raised her fist; She has lived in her neighborhood and has known when it was time to leave her favorite downtown balcony to look for a house with views of the sky.

«You have given me deep and real love, you have given me illusion that hurts, you have given me uncontrollable passion and a freedom that I will defend until I die, you have given me absolute sadness and also the way to understand it, you have given me the nostalgia that “It lights up with the streetlights at night, you have given me anger and the strength necessary to fight it, you have given me a voice, you have given me a word.”

Taking as reference some of the columns she wrote for El País, the poet and winner of the Biblioteca Breve Award with Días sin ti has shaped her most personal book, as intimate as it is vindictive, in a very careful edition that includes photographs, poems, letters and other content written for the occasion.