I've been asked to talk about a book. I've chosen a book titled "Mecanoscrit del segon origen". It is a science fiction book originally written in catalan by Manuel de Pedrolo.
I read this book when I was studying catalan in the Benidorm official languages school. In that time I was living in Benidorm and I was working as a secondary school teacher and it was necessary to study catalan.
The english title for this book would be "typescript of the second origin". The novel is set in catalonia and there are two main characters: Alba, who is a 14 years old girl and Didac who is a 10 years old black boy.
The story starts when Alba and Didac manage to survive to an alien attack. They flee to the forest because everybody is dead and they want to begin a new life without getting sick. After that, they both move to Barcelona where they retrieve books to build a library with knowledge it is needed to start a new society.
Further on, looking for live people, they both begin a travel across the Mediterranean sea. During this trip they fall in love and in one summer night they start to have sex. Then they come back to Catalonia where Mar, name of the daughter of the new couple, is born.
Eventually and unfortunately Didac dies in an accident. Then Alba writes the book we are reading. In this book she says that she wants Mar to have children in order to start a new mankind.
The last chapter of the book is an article newspaper written seven thousand years later of the alien invasion. The article wonders if the text is authentic and if Alba is really the mankind's mother.
From my point of view it is a very interesting book because, even though it is a science fiction novel, the plot is innovative. It is difficult for me to judge how it is written, because I read it in catalan. You can read the spanish translation and I definitely recommend you.
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