Más liviano que el aire

• She is lonely, forever lonely, and her solitude drove her to imprison a thief in her bathroom just to talk—to share this vast space with another soul. The robbery itself was mundane, yet the author transformed it into a gripping event, crafting a thrilling monologue between a 93-year-old woman and a 14-year-old boy whose voice we hear only through her words and reactions. A novel where every turn surprises, with an unexpected ending. Delightful and written in wonderfully accessible prose.

• I needed a novel in which I could fully immerse my imagination, and 'Lighter than Air' arrived like a third lung—with its seamless, flowing narrative that cascades like stringed pearls. There is such gripping drama in this tale of a 14-year-old boy and a ninety-year-old lady who locks him in her bathroom to tell him her mother's story. A captivating narrative that pulls you into the events and paints the inner depths of both characters.

• How did the narrator come up with this idea? A novel set in a single place with a single storyteller and varied events, yet blended with incredible smoothness and sheer genius. Here, man emerges as a first-rate 'storyteller', willing to do almost anything just to escape the trap of his own 'solitude'. An old woman locks up a boy who tried to rob her, and his punishment is having to listen to her life story. She won't let him go until she finishes it.

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