A stranger arrives in a place full of living history, where nothing is what it seems.

One winter night, a man arrives in Sallent de Santa Pau. Soon, the newcomer is assigned to teach Mar, a thirteen-year-old girl. Her family is the axis around which all the lives of the Ser Valley revolve. “This girl will get lost,” says her grandfather, a man who has the gift of finding water underground and giving orders without opening his mouth. To find out what it means to get lost, we will have to travel the paths that connect the houses and the experiences of the inhabitants of a valley where everyone arrives there fleeing from something and only those who have not been able to leave remain. The stranger searches for buried stories like a saurian searches for water veins, and he gradually creates a portrait of the valley and its people, of time and country, of its myths and of himself. We are at the center of the world and history. The Firehouse is a work steeped in reality and magic, a novel that seeks and finds, a story that traverses our present and tells us about the future, a book that must be read.

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