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Presentation of the book "Those rural boys of the Yenka" by Daniel Villarroya

6 May, 2025 | 19:00

«Life is nothing but a coming and going to childhood. Childhood is that time and that life that will never abandon us ».
A woven novel of adventures, Trapacerías and Triquiñuelas – In a small and retired rural space – of Lucas, Toñín, Pablo and Miguelón, Its protagonists. Next to Fermín, The remoish, Wish, Aunt Maria, Don Olegario, Martial, don Marcelino, Gregorio and many other characters will form an endearing and peculiar world in which something remarkable happens every day.
The infant look of the protagonists offers us a casual and truthful mirror of education, The authority, Birth and death, Religion, The Wounds of the Civil War, Sexuality, Emigration to the city, The parents-child relationships, The work of the countryside ... a portrait as alive as rigorous from those sixties, When they still smoked the ashes of war and people fought with nails and teeth for lifting life. "Those rural boys from Yenka" is undoubtedly a novel for all.

About the author
Daniel Villarroya Sangüesa is Turolense of origin and Barcelona adoption. Of labrador parents, grew in rural areas, and then become a teacher and a degree in Education Sciences from the UAB.
A literary career began with the novel a trip to silence (2022), An initiatory approach to one's own knowledge. After this came the silent path. Teachers of silence (2023), Detailed itinerary of the meditative process of friends of the desert, And the novel give me a word (2024), that explores the crises of the equator of life. Now, In those rural boys from Yenka, Through its innumerable adventures, It enters the childhood of the sixties.

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