{"title":"Books by Fer Rivas","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"yo-era-un-chico-fer-rivas","title":"Yo era un chico","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"886\"\u003eA sixteen-year-old boy enters the hospital room where his father is in a coma, surrounded by machines. He knows he has to say goodbye and that it is the last chance to tell him what he never dared to say: who he really is, the fear he always had of him, the shame, and the desire. Years later, that impossible conversation becomes \u003cem data-start=\"746\" data-end=\"763\"\u003eYo era un chico\u003c\/em\u003e, the long letter in which Fer Rivas finally writes to his father everything he kept silent about during his childhood and adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"888\" data-end=\"1376\"\u003eThe book goes through scenes from his life – school, first friendships, the discovery of desire – and the family history: the Galician grandparents who emigrated to Barcelona in the fifties, the SEAT factory, the apartment sick with aluminosis, social climbing, and the class shame that spans generations. In this fabric of memories, the author tries to understand his sexuality, his identity, and the relationship with an authoritarian, absent father marked by his own traumas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1378\" data-end=\"1863\"\u003eRivas writes a raw and brave text that names things for what they are – love, hate, class, desire, fear – and breaks the chain of suffocating, inherited masculinity that passes from grandfather to father and from father to son. \u003cem data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1628\"\u003eYo era un chico\u003c\/em\u003e is at once a letter to the father, family memory, and a chronicle of how silences and symbolic violence can shape a life, but also of how it is possible to say enough and open a path toward another way of being and existing in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sexto Piso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56329621045592,"sku":"LIB-YO-SE-355","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/yo-era-un-chico-fer-rivas-9078598.jpg?v=1764842290"},{"product_id":"jo-era-un-noi-186-narratives","title":"Jo Era Un Noi","description":"A raw and brave text that calls things by their name.\n\nA 16-year-old boy enters the hospital room where his father is in a coma, surrounded by machines keeping him alive. The boy knows he has to say goodbye and that this is the last chance to confess everything he has never told him: his true identity, and the fear and shame he has always felt in front of this man who is now fading away.\n\n\u003cem\u003eJo era un noi\u003c\/em\u003e is a book about grief. The narrator addresses his father and, at the same time, explains to himself everything he kept silent about during childhood and adolescence. It is a journey of inquiry through scenes of his life that explores family archaeology: the grandfather’s emigration from Galicia to the Zona Franca neighborhood in the 1950s, the SEAT factory, an apartment sick with aluminosis, until he comes to understand his identity and sexuality.\n\nA story that names, without euphemisms, love, hate, class, desire, and fear, and that breaks the chain of a suffocating and oppressive masculinity that connects the grandfather and the father, the father and the son.","brand":"Angle Editorial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56554766729560,"sku":"LIB-JO-AN-397","price":18.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410112704.jpg?v=1768679768"}],"url":"https:\/\/eu.plasticbooks.com\/en\/collections\/libros-fer-rivas.oembed","provider":"Plastic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}