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Mike Bradford is an American photojournalist on a work trip trying to get home to his family in Chicago. Due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus across Europe in March 2020, he finds himself stuck in a hotel room in Madrid, Spain, for the foreseeable future. Though he knows it is for the greater good of the world, being quarantined from his family -especially from his little daughter Olivia- and unable to work on the job he loves so much is a challenge that he must face head-on and come to terms with. During the final stretch of his quarantine, Mike summons a series of personal memories. He travels years ago to a North American landscape that was a milestone in his career: Canyonlands.
In this philosophical and very relevant chronicle of the recent pandemic, we are taken inside the active mind of a man unable to be very active at all, and we witness just how fragile the routines that we often take for granted really are. They can be halted in the blink of an eye.
ISBN : 978-1-80074-909-2
Published: 30/11/2023
Pages : 116
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
JB Rodríguez Aguilar (Madrid, 1973) is a Spanish writer, translator and editorial manager. He holds a degree in Fine Arts and has worked for many years as a librarian at the Public Libraries of Madrid City. Today he is exclusively dedicated to writing, teaching and translating. He is the published author of six novels in Spain, the last one being ‘Noches del Oba-Oba' in 2021. He was the award winner of the XIV Short Stories Prize of Ateneo La Laguna with the anthology, ‘Cuentos de Indagación y Neurosis'. ‘Canyonlands, a Quarantine Ballad' is his first work to be translated into English.