“If the comic suggests so much life amid pain and violence, it is thanks to the author’s ability to intertwine, always subtly and carefully, stories that unfold in very different places and times. I finished reading it with goosebumps.”
Ada Bruguera (bookseller)
Angels’ Basin tells the story of war from the perspective of women from different geographies, positions, and realities, whose lives intertwine in the city of Berlin. The protagonists: a survivor, a pilot, a prisoner, a guest worker, a recruit, and a refugee.
Svetlana Alexievich wrote that “women’s war has its own colors, its own smells, its own light and its own space,” and these pages seem to seek precisely to evoke that. The lives of the six protagonists featured here are all marked by war. With Engelbecken—the Berlin pond that could be translated as “the Angels’ Basin”—as the epicenter of all the stories, Berta Cusó begins with the final days of the Second World War in Berlin and reaches up to the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, which, at the time of editing this work, still endures.
