Jorge Guales saw the food cart arrive. He was in car 7 of the Iryo and the train had stopped. Staff passed by offering drinks and snacks. He felt relaxed. What came next was the impact: “The hit, the deafening crash.” He tries to reconstruct what happened afterward. It’s difficult for him. Some passengers were thrown against the seats and several objects fell to the floor. He saw and heard everything, but it’s blurry. He, a 53-year-old Colombian, looked out the window and saw smoke. He stood up. The door was open. He got out and helped others to exit the train. Once outside, they walked together along a ditch and several local residents broke down a fence so they could pass through. He turned and saw the wrecked carriages. He had just walked out of one of them unharmed.

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La librería más antigua de Madrid protagoniza estos días un thriller inmobiliario en el que no todo es lo que parece. Para contar la historia que hay detrás, hay que presentar a sus tres protagonistas: la dueña del local y de la librería, Ana Serrano, una mujer que heredó el negocio de su familia y que lo regentó junto a su hermana toda la vida; Juan José Janeiro, un inversor extranjero que aprovechó el momento en que se anunció el cierre hace algo más de cuatro años y quiso rescatarla; y Pablo Cerezo, un joven entusiasta comprometido con la cultura. El conflicto amenaza con hacer desaparecer Pérgamo, una librería con estanterías de otro siglo y por la que han pasado los autores más reconocidos del mundo.

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