Winter Letters

Technical data
Agustín Fernández Pan
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Synthesis
It is about a writer named Xavier, who after returning from
Canada sends her sister an envelope with stories about her friend Adrián.
and he. Xavier comes across a bunch of letters sent by his friend and
Scared by what he was telling him, he went to help him, but he didn't know what was happening.
in that haunted house. In the end, Xavier and Adrián die.

Summary
Teresa arrives home and sees that her brother Xavier has sent her a very envelope.
great, he started to read it, and inside that envelope there was a note and another one
About. Teresa read the note that was in the first envelope that said that if
I didn't hear anything from him again about delivering that envelope to Inspector Sotillo and
that please do not read the letter inside.
Days went by and Teresa did not receive any news from her brother.
Teresa couldn't resist and decided to open the envelope.

The first note said that if you were reading this note, it was because it
There were few hours of life left, after which he told the story of Adrián, his friend.
Adrián was a famous painter, and he and Xavier had known each other since they were kids.

Xavier started to tell that he and Adrián met every year in Galicia,
but the last time was different.
Xavier and Adrián were sitting on the terrace of a café when they saw
an ad in a newspaper that said a haunted house was for sale,
So Xavier jokingly told Adrián that he didn't dare to buy it,
but Adrián took it seriously.
After Xavier had to go to Quebec. When Xavier returned from Quebec,
he passed by the post office and found a very large box full
of letters. Xavier went home and there he organized the letters, many were from
Adrián organized them chronologically and started reading them.

In the first letter, Adrián told Xavier that he had inquired about the
haunted house, and I was planning to buy it, that I couldn't talk face to face
with the owner but they talked on the phone, that the house was in a place
called Doroña-vilamaior and was hoping that he would come to visit him soon.

In the following envelope, Adrián told Xavier that he had already bought the
house, and that he had gone to see it and it was beautiful, that he hoped to settle in to live
there and he was eagerly waiting for Xavier to visit him. Another letter
it was already different, Adrián was telling Xavier that he was being called on the phone and

a strange noise was heard, and when I unplugged the phone it rang anyway,
they also sent him faxes all full of disordered letters and without
meaning, even that the inhabitants of the village were very strange with him.
theme of that house, that he asked about the house but no one
he answered, as if they were afraid of something. In the following letter that
Xavier read, Adria was saying that the calls and faxes were becoming more frequent.
and one day when he received one he stayed watching it and realized that it was
like a kind of word search in which I wrote: ¡Adrián help!
Adrián was very scared and thought it would be a joke from someone.
funny, but one day he received a different fax that said: help! Up!
Adrián, who was still scared, climbed up to the attic of the house and saw that
there was a trunk, he opened it, and inside he saw that there were many books and he was
looking, then on top of a table saw one that caught his attention, it
he was looking, they were paintings by some painters, and there was a portrait that
he caught his attention a lot, it was not a masterpiece, it was a girl
sitting by a window in a room, with an expression
Sad, but somehow I caught his attention, he had something. Adrián brought it down.
down to take a look later. When it was already night, Adrián went to
look at the book and realized that the portrait had changed, now the
the girl was sleeping, Adrián couldn't believe it, so he went for his
camera and made one, to check if it had been his imagination
or had it really happened. The next day Adrian looked at the book again and
he saw that he was really not crazy, the image had changed again.
Days went by and Adrián could believe it less and less each day, but he had
many photos that demonstrated it, one day that photo had another change
important the girl in the photo this time was curled up on the floor and in
The wall had written a message that said: 'Help Adrián'
One day while looking at the photo, she realized that in the window of the image
it was the same as that of his house, but it corresponded to a part of the
a house in which there was no room, or so it seemed. Adrián no longer
he could do more, so he decided to tear down the partition to see if there was another one.

room, when tearing down the wall, Adrián confirmed all his doubts,
Indeed, there was another room there; upon entering, he saw that there was nothing.
in the room, but there was indeed another door, Adrián went to open it, and saw
that the room was very small and that in the center there was a trapdoor,
Adrián went to open it but couldn't, and since it was night, he decided to open it in the morning.

next day.
When he got up, he went to the room and opened the hatch, there was nothing.
inside but it smelled really bad, he wanted to enter but didn't dare and decided
enter in the afternoon and in the afternoon he/she entered.

In Adrian's letters nothing was said anymore and Xavier decided to go to Doroña.
When he got home, he saw that Adrian hadn't lied and that it was true.
that the house was beautiful. Xavier entered and saw that there was no one in the house and
he went straight to the kitchen where Adrián had knocked down the partition
and saw that there was no hole there, but that it had been filled in recently.
because the cement was still fresh.
Xavier went to sleep, when suddenly the fax rang, it was a stranger.
message like the ones Adrian had told him, but he added other things
He said: Xavier help me! Xavier went to see the book and there was that portrait.
the girl was sleeping. The next day Xavier looked at the book again and
he saw that the image had changed, Adrián was right, he quickly grabbed
a pickaxe and went to break the wall, and entered the room, saw the trapdoor and
it was open, Adrián had to be there when suddenly Xavier saw
a very strange way in the trapdoor, Xavier ran away, and locked himself in
In his room, he couldn't sleep because the noises didn't stop all night.
night. The next morning Xavier decided to enter and went to the room
Then he saw a note and started reading it, it was from Adrián saying to leave.
that was in great danger, that you would leave him, that they were hungry.
Xavier didn't care and went down, but he took a bunch of firewood to make.
fire, since the fire would purify everything.
Xavier's letters no longer said anything else.
Teresa, very nervous, took the letters to Inspector Sotillo, and the two of them
they went to Doroña, when they arrived at the house they saw that there was a lot of
people and smoke, the house was on fire. When they put out the fire, Teresa
he entered, but saw nothing.

Teresa went for a walk in the mountains to clear her head and there she saw
he took the book and went to the house, gathered dry leaves and branches and burned it
the book started making strange noises and emitting black smoke, but
Teresa did not leave there when the noises and smoke stopped, that was
the moment Teresa knew that everything was over, and that Xavier and
Adrián could rest in peace.

Internal structure
OUTLINE: Since Teresa reads the letters sent to her by her
brother Xavier until Adrián buys the house.
NUDO: Since they send Adrián strange messages until
Xavier burns the house.
DISCONNECTION: When Teresa arrives at Doroña and burns the book.

Characters
-MAIN:
Adrián: He is a famous painter, who after being a long time in the
foreign returns to his home.
Xavier: He is a famous writer and a friend of Adrián since childhood.

Teresa: She is Xavier's sister, she is a very brave person.

Historical time
The setting is current, the actions take place in winter.

Space
Most actions take place in a place called Doroña-Vilamaior.

Personal opinion
I have liked this book a lot because it has been the only book that
I started to read and couldn't stop because mystery books were my
they like a lot.