Icarus Paloma González Rubio
New Adult
168 pages
Biography, Mental health, Disability
Rights sold: Spanish (Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9788419876164
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Erik is a young pilot from Germany. As he prepares to copilot his next flight from Turin, he reflects on his life, which has been heavily marked by illness.
Not only did he have a depressed mother, but he also had a cousin that, at the age of 11, suffered an accident that affected his spinal cord and left him unable to move except for an arm and the head. Therefore, Erik spent his youth playing the role
of the caretaker.
As years went by, Erik travelled, fell in love, but the heavy, dark atmosphere of his home stuck with him wherever he went, and even affected his own mental health. To the point that a dangerous thought starts wandering around his head, a thought that may lead him to doing something terrible...