Murphy, Damian - The Explosion Of A Chandelier

Spain, possibly Sevilla, mid-1920’s, between the World Wars, pre-Franco.
Héctor enjoys a tenuous friendship with Vito, who professes more worldliness than he actually has.
While Vito poses and declaims a great deal, he is of a higher social standing than Héctor.
Both boys seem pre-teens, still engage in pranks, bound into mischief, tax their imaginations with wild role play. Viewing some adults as spies, saboteurs, anarchists, agitators.
Soon, Héctor, spending more of his summer afternoons in the enigmatic House Of Amaryllis, has a veil lifted: he glimpses a half lit world of alternative possibilities and ramifications.
This is a book that will carry you as far as you permit, in a variety of directions.
One may simply read a coming of age narrative. Another may read an analogy of Spain, or Europe, in an innocent, yet fraught period, just before the mass conflict. Yet another may see Fate’s hand, angels observing, utterly disinterested, the scrambling affairs of mankind.
This is the initial offering of the new Occult Press, and a real coup. One wishes them a long run.