This is not said about Alejandro Palomas

This is not said
by Alejandro Palomas

October 26, 2022

A lively, exciting, courageous and hopeful story about the greatest of evils: child abuse.

At the end of January 2022, Alejandro Palomas shared his testimony in the media as a victim of abuse during his childhood. The news was moving due to its frankness and honesty.

Palomas is one of the most individual novelists in our country. His stories are recognizable for their high sensitivity, the ability to put words to the satellite characters of life and for the tenderness and humor with which he constructs them.

This book does not tell us what Alejandro already explained in his day, but it reveals how a child managed to survive everything that happened thanks to the power of his imagination and the strength of stories. The book includes a part of a graphic novel story.

A book full of light, humor, and tenderness that seeks to put words to everything that is never said and that gives us a necessary lesson: the strength of knowing and being able to tell it.

Alejandro Palomas (Barcelona, ​​1967) has a degree in English Philology and a master’s degree in poetics from New College in San Francisco. He has combined journalism with the translation of important authors and poetry (Quiero and Una flor). Among others, he has published the novels El alma del mundo, Agua cerrado and El tiempo que nos une. In 2016 he received the National Prize for Young People’s Literature for Un hijo, whose sequel, Un secreto, was published in 2019. The successful trilogy Una madre, Un perro y Un amor (Nadal Prize 2018) portrays a family that has enamored thousands of readers. With Un país con tu nombre (Destino, 2021) he begins a new literary universe. His work has been adapted for film and theatre and has been translated into more than twenty languages.