Milagro en el Agua
The Basque publishing house Berez Haziku has just published the novel by journalist and writer Joan Francesc Fondevila Gascón Milagro en el agua, winner of the I International Contest of Erotic and Love Literature. The work, of historical and amorous character, is inspired by the 1962 flood that affected Terrassa and region. “It is an allegory, sprinkled with numerous fragments of poetic prose, in which the struggle for life and, above all, love end up triumphing,” explains Fondevila.
This is the first foray into the novel by the Terrassa-born author, winner of numerous literary awards in various genres (novel, poetry, short story, micro-story). “It is my first novel and it is a great joy that it has been awarded,” says Fondevila. “Our heartbeats are the heartbeats of water, of that meek and pure water that springs from the rocks or of that raging water that furrows the twists and turns of the stream, of that water of the blessed baptisms of life or of that water of blood, tears and death.” Thus begins the work.
The novel Milagro en el Agua tells several love stories with the connecting nexus of the flood that occurred in Terrassa on September 25, 1962. A mixture of love, death and hope runs through the work, whose intersection is the vital evolution of some of the survivors of the tragedy. The plot is punctuated by real episodes and anecdotes of the flood. From dramatic historical facts, the author builds a beautiful story of resilience and humanity around different characters of that town. They will be the ones marked by a fatal destiny and at the same time the actors of a personal and community resurrection, facing situations and dilemmas that each one of us will feel as our own.
The author succeeds in masterfully combining an elegant and poetic narrative style with passages of documentary, even journalistic style, managing with his very personal prose to take us, bring us and take us back to the territories where pain, hope, fraternity and healing through love coexist.
The play begins with the drama of Mary and Joseph. Mary is about to give birth to Adam, but he dies just as the couple is driving to the Rubí hospital on the night of the flood. Maria faints from the pain and is unaware of having lost her son. Desperate, José sees a cradle descending the stream. He manages to grab it when the current brings it randomly close to the shore, and saves a baby, who will be the new Adam. The book can be purchased at: https://berez-haziku.eus/tienda_online/
BIOGRAPHY:
The multifaceted Dr. Joan Francesc Fondevila Gascón, University Professor, professor at numerous universities (Blanquerna-Universidad Ramon Llull, EUM-Universidad de Girona, Euncet-Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, EAE Business School, Universidad Pompeu Fabra), director of the Center for Cable Studies (CECABLE) and president of the philanthropic Sociatat Catalana de Comunicació-Institut d'Estudis Catalans (SCC-IEC), director of the Center for Cable Studies (CECABLE) and president of the philanthropic Societat Catalana de Comunicació-Institut d'Estudis Catalans (SCC-IEC), has won numerous scientific, teaching, journalistic, management and literary awards. The most recent are the Serranía de Guadalajara Literary Prize (2022), the International Olive Grove Short Story Prize (2022), the Amnesty International Human Rights Micro-story Contest (2022), the Rhymes for Debra Literary Prize (2023), the I International Erotic and Love Literature Contest (2024), the Tomelloso “Romería de la Virgen de las Viñas” Short Story and Micropoem Contest (2024) and the José Nicolás Pascual Herrero Literary Contest of Magaña (Soria) (2024).
Fondevila is the principal investigator of the Research Group on Journalism and Digital Marketing and Broadband and the Research Group on Innovative Monetization Systems for Journalism, Marketing and Digital Tourism (SIMPED), and researcher of the Research Group on Strategy and Creativity in Advertising and Public Relations (Institut de Recerca en Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna-URL) and of the Scientific Communication Observatory and the Research Group on Scientific Communication (GRECC) of the UPF. He is the author of the scientific blog Telecomunicaciones y Periodismo (http://www.telecomunicacionesyperiodismo.com/), a world leader in his areas of expertise. He has published numerous books (scientific, academic and about sport, with special prominence of Terrassa Futbol Club), more than 200 indexed scientific articles and has won four six-year research periods.
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