Post by Mariana Valdés

"Donde habitan los ángeles"

“Donde habitan los ángeles” it’s a book written by Claudia Celis.

This book is about a little boy name Panchito who went on vacations with his cousins in their grand uncles’ house.

They have a lot of adventures together, but as everything has to end, vacations end. All of them return to their house except Panchito.

Panchito entered school in San Miguel, the little town where his grand uncles live.

As time passed, Panchito started to worry about his mom. He thought that she abandoned him and she did not have time for his son, but her grand aunt (Chabelita) told him not to worry.

Panchito and his cousins had grown but they still see each other except for the big ones (la Peque, la Nena y Lola) that have already married.

As Panchito entered high school, he felt in love for the first time, but unfortunately his heart was broken, and as he finished school, he had to decide which career he is going to choose. His uncle (Tacho) wanted him to be a doctor, but as he took Panchito to a surgery, they noticed that Panchito was not doctor material.

He decided to study Economics, and in the university he felt in love with Alejandra, a girl who was a little strange. At some point he found out that she was distant to all human being because she had anemia. After a few months Alejandra died and Panchito got extremely sad. His grand uncles noticed it so the buy him climbing equipment so that he can “get out of the deepness he had got into”.

One day his uncle Tacho left him a message in his phone ‘Panchito, you need to come as fast as you can”. As he arrived to San Miguel he went to his uncle’s office and Tacho told him that his aunt was very sick. A few days later, Chabelita died and Panchito and his uncle lived in depression. Panchito went back to school and a few months later he received a package. It was a letter of his uncle saying that if he was reading that letter he had passed away and he said that he left Panchito the climbing equipment almost complete, that he took the compass so that he wouldn’t loose the path where the angels live. The last will of his grand uncles was to be buried together. As they were accommodating the bodies in the same coffin, Panchito noticed that his uncle was smiling and he had dropped the compass. “You found your way!” is the last phrase of the book.

I think this is the best book I have ever read.