The Mallorcan Roser Amills publishes a novel about the youth of Gabriel García Márquez

PalmThe writer and journalist Roser Amills (Algaida, Mallorca, 1974) will publish her fifth novel on May 6, El librero de Macondo, with the José Manuel Lara Foundation, part of the Planeta Group. The work narrates the relationship between two extraordinary figures: the young Gabriel García Márquez and his mentor and friend Ramon Vinyes i Cluet, exiled in Colombia after the Spanish Civil War and a key figure in the formation of the Colombian writer, as informed by the author.

Insecure and fascinated by Vinyes' mix of rigor, irony, and generosity, Gabriel approaches him in search of advice and encouragement. Vinyes, immortalized in One Hundred Years of Solitude as "the sage who had read all the books," no longer believes in success. He has understood that talent without context is merely an entertaining way of getting lost, but also that from defeat can arise the deepest utility: to transmit what has been learned even while failing.

Amills investigates what can be done, from a vocation that does not give up, with the remnants of all that could have been and was not: a devastated homeland or childhood, the embers of desire, or lost hopes. This project, on which the author has worked for more than a decade, covers settings such as Barcelona, Mallorca, Paris, and Colombia and spans more than a century of history.

The writer emphasizes that the most personal element of the work is the incorporation of her own life experience, addressing aspects of her childhood, her family environment, and episodes marked by difficult situations. This approach represents a change in her career, by directly addressing themes that until now she had barely explored in her narrative, in a commitment to a more intimate and "truthful" writing