Sarah, you deserve to know It is Francesc Soler’s new book, a thriller full of unexpected twists and touches of humor, which tells the particular revenge of two women against sexist violence, which will end up transforming them into justice fugitive.
Soler is one of the voices of El Matí de Catalunya Ràdio and works next to Diagonal Dir, a center he has known for more than 20 years. The journalist has chosen our club as a setting for their sophistication and link with the upper area of Barcelona.
The bodybuilding room, changing rooms and even parking, with a rather hard scene. Also Elsa, Zumba technique, is one of the secondary protagonists of the novel. The author warns that all profiles are invented.
It is the third book you publish and the first thriller. Why have you opted for this category?
As a reader, I really like to combine different reading styles. I always think there is a book for each moment and we need one to read on the beach, in the dir while we take the sun, at the airport waiting for the flight … It is a claim of entertainment literature and also the conviction that here too here You can deal with serious issues, make social criticism or give ideas. In addition, I really like the black novel and I had a great time writing it.
What deserves to know Sarah?
Sara is sitting on the bus and hears a boy who fanfarea with a friend of having put his girlfriend’s horns and, in addition, in a very denigrating way in which it is clear that he only wants to marry for money. Sara believes that it is an injustice that she cannot miss and decides to write a tweet in the hope that she will reach the couple of this boy, Sarah.
This gesture is a symbol of sorority and protection between women claimed by a male author.
Putting on other people’s skin is one of the challenges as a writer. I was very clear that I wanted to do a work with two protagonists and, in the end, it can be considered a feminist novel. I am the omniscient narrator, I speak in the third person, and I was inspired, among others, in Thelma & Louise. I admire this friendship between two women because it ends up becoming an alliance. They are two female characters who show that they do not need a man to solve things. Nor to move a body.
And what happens diagonally say?
It is the place where the two male protagonists, Matías and Alberto, which are the antithesis of Sara and Sarah. Alberto admires Matías, is impressed and aspires to be like him, since he sees him as a winner at work and with women. There it is precisely where the infidelity that triggers the entire plot is cooked. It seemed like a very plausible type of scenario.
Has a real case inspired you?
I have inspired people who had heard unconfessable secrets in the locker rooms of a gym and who, thanks to the power of social networks, the message had reached the interested person. It seemed so prodigious that I decided that this would be the start for the novel.
Do you also socialize when you go to the gym?
I like to go to my roll. I do some cardio and then bodybuilding with free weights or in the machines. It is a time to be with myself and download this physical part, since it spends many hours a day sitting. The body active not only to see me well but also to balance. In summer I also enjoy the pool and the solarium.