Publisher's Synopsis
This is how Joan Manuel Serrat sings.
That song inspires me to evoke times and situations experienced by those who once left their countries behind; experiences that emerge when one tries the mind to remember the new lives that began a new dawn in places they had never thought of before.
There is a word that represents these reminiscences and is: "after the bonfire ". With it I mean the ashes that cover with glowing blue-gray embers that are still alive. As soon as we shake them, the memories appear ... making an effort not to die, and I see the distant time warming my heart again. Reappear the joys and sorrows, laughter and tears, the children now grown, loved ones, those who are no longer...
When the dance is rekindled, the dancing flame is produced, producing the inspiration that turns into letters, words and stories. From there, walking and moving with moving memories come the names, the people and the friends.
There is another meaning of "after the bonfire", which refers to the thick and firm trunk that is placed at the bottom of the fireplace, to keep the fire. That which should not be lost in the heart, in the soul, in the spirit.
The fire that is imposed on a story ... arrived by mysterious ways to our mind, and unravels experiences that became sad or smiling. Stories that I wanted to give to honor those who, leaving everything behind, began each day to look at a new dawn.
