When planning leads to the unexpected.
Aurora is a woman in her early thirties, a civil servant at the city council, who has just broken up with her boyfriend after a ten-year relationship, right after they had signed a mortgage together.
Suddenly, Aurora appears to have the seemingly perfect life of a young woman: she has a job, a group of friends, and the freedom to go out and sleep with whomever she wants. Everything would be perfect if it weren’t for the fact that she has a major personal problem: Aurora suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). She hardly speaks to her friends to avoid having to explain her issues, and she prefers to keep her distance from her family to avoid them blaming her for losing her ex-fiancé, who, in her family’s eyes, was the perfect man.
To get used to her newfound singleness and her new apartment, the protagonist decides not to take a vacation and works in the August heat in a half-deserted city office and lives in a semi-empty building. It is in this lonely setting that Brais, a ten-year-old gifted child who lives in the opposite stairwell, appears in her life, and becomes someone Aurora can’t shake off. Despite her efforts to avoid him, a friendship develops between them that brings significant changes in her routine.
The story immerses the reader in Aurora’s daily life and explores the moments from her recent past that have led her to her current situation. It also delves into her encounters with casual sexual partners she meets on Saturday nights at random bars, as well as her (mis)adventures and idealizations of the erotic novels that she is deeply passionate about.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Don’t think about a pink elephant is a hilarious, contemporary, and fresh dramedy told in a kind and lighthearted tone. The protagonist is a young woman from Galicia who battles against OCD every day, which has cost her future marriage, personal relationships, and inner peace. The only way she can escape it is drinking on the weekends and casual sex with men she barely knows. The protagonist of this novel is a thoroughly contemporary character, and her neuroticism strongly resonates with today’s society.
The author, Antía Yáñez, is a multiple award-winning writer, who has won the Agustín Fernández Paz Prize for Children and Youth Narrative for Equality and the Illa Nova Narrative Prize. The book has garnered numerous reviews on literary platforms such as Goodreads.
What the critics have said:
“With a great sense of humor, the Galician author creates Aurora, a young woman who seemingly has the life of a happy city dweller, if it weren’t for the fact that ‘nothing in her existence goes as it should’.” La Vanguardia
“Don’t think about a pink elephant is the second novel for adults by this Galician writer and tells a funny story about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a problem the author knows well.” La Razón
“The book tells the story of Aurora, a paradigmatic example of the millennial generation, and Brais, the gifted child who lives in her stairwell.” 20 minutos
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie.
LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Spanish, Galician, and Catalan.
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