Review by Elena Anaïs Tonia Romani 3ºB
Las lagrimas de Shiva is a book of intrigue and adventure, written by Cesar Mallorqui, this work is a mixture of intrigue, action, suspense, love… It tells the story of a boy who has to travel to the house of his uncles, descendants of the Obregón family. There he will discover the true meaning of life and will take a great example from his four cousins.
In the summer of 1969, Javier had to spend a few months with his uncles and cousins because his father had a contagious illness. The young man doesn’t want to spend the summer there, he doesn’t remember his uncles and aunts, and the fact of spending several weeks in a house with four teenagers doesn’t please him at all. However, he will gradually get used to the rhythm of Villa Candelaria, to his strange inventor uncle who spends more time in his workshop in the basement than his aunt who plays classical music softly, and to the different personalities of the four young people who are called the four flowers: Rosa, Margarita, Violeta and Azucena. In addition to going to the beach, visiting Santander, trying to get along with his cousins, especially Violeta, seems to have declared war on the young man’s taste for science fiction, Javier will discover a mystery that is unique to him. the house: one of nards that only he perceives, the flight of a skirt twirling a corridor and a mystery that begs to be solved: who was Beatriz Obregón ? And what are the Lagrimas de Shiva?
If you have already read César Mallorquí, you will recognise his own style in the pages of this novel, of agile dialogues, mysteries and adventures, with literary and first-person narration. If you haven’t read anything by the author yet and you like stories of mysteries and teenage love, I highly recommend this book!
