Looking with a cynical smile at the powerful, Three funerals for Eladio Monroy by Alexis Ravelo, It is a novel that will catch you, learn a little about its plot in this article.
Just within the limits of legality, Eladio Monroy, retired chief engineer.
Three funerals for Eladio Monroy
Merchant Marine, insolent, bulky, impulsive, bald, Eladio Monroy is how we can define him, an irreverent man who has a tattooed letter K on his left arm which for him means “so as not to forget that it is useless to search for a meaning”.
To complete his pension, Eladio accepts small unconventional jobs, like taking a guy who comes from the peninsula to walk around Las Palmas to do, nobody knows exactly what, something not too complicated. On this occasion, an assignment will involve him in a dangerous plot that will endanger his safety and that of those around him.
His ex-wife calls him for help. Someone is blackmailing her after filming her and her uptight husband having a threesome with a prostitute. More for trying to get his daughter back than for money, Eladio agrees to help them and pay the blackmail.
Although it seems like a simple procedure and it is believed that it can be simple, it can turn into a very dark tone without knowing what can happen, because nothing is what it seems.
The protagonist is a character that I like. He moves through the underworld without clashing. He maintains a relationship, one of those that cannot be defined, with his neighbor Gloria.
Eladio Monroy can be simple and lead a life that is nothing out of the ordinary. He drinks coffee at the Casablanca bar, run by Casimiro, and brings the newspaper to his neighbor, who is an old man, every day. Although nothing that will happen to Eladio will be easy.
Three funerals for Eladio Monroy, from the high neighborhoods we can remove the corrupt, the decayed, what we should remove from the lower neighborhoods, that there is darkness and sewage, those pay to erase the evidence. It may interest you The endless story by Michael End.