The actor Jordi Vidal recommends a story of women who rebel

BarcelonaActor Jordi Vidal, known for shows like Guillermotta, Estimadíssims malvats and For Evita, has a luxury literary recommender: his brother Xavier is the founder of the Nollegiu bookstore. "I trust everything he recommends," he points out. For the readers of ARA, he chooses the latest book recommended by his brother: Punt d'aranya, by the Galician author Nerea Pallares, published in Spanish by Libros del Asteroide and in Catalan by Edicions del Periscopi – with translation by Eduard Velasco. "I really liked it for the mix of female power and Galician legends," says Vidal, who avoids giving too many plot details to avoid spoilers, although the author did in this interview with ARA, in which she also denounced that women are not allowed "to be angry or violent."

Vidal particularly liked how Pallares uses lacework as a metaphorical element. "I really like the story of Punt d'aranya and how a society can be reinvented by unraveling and weaving a language. I found it to be a very beautiful image," explains the actor. On the Edicions del Periscopi website, it is described as a "maritime and choral" novel. "In its pages, the sea breeze and pillow lace, drug trafficking and ancestral legends, the Fates and TikTok videos are intertwined," the description also says. The story begins with the arrival of a young woman, Ari, in the town of Camariñas, to work at the lacework museum and be a tourist guide. But in this town, nothing is as it seems. Furthermore, Ari arrives on a day that will mark a before and after in the history of the town, which has about 5,000 inhabitants. "Women rebel and summon superior forces to put an end to a kind of patriarchal society," points out Vidal.