La luz que cae

Here is a truly unique and unexpected book. On the occasion of a recent trip to Japan to give lectures, the author came into contact with the ideas and figure of Hiroshi Kindaichi, an unusual Japanese thinker of the 18th century. Kindaichi, almost unknown until today, was a Shinto heretic who broke the mold, faced the society of his time and was a pioneer in the dialogue with nature and in the spiritual astonishment that nature itself gives off. In Japan, helped by a specialist in the heretical world of Kindaichi, García Ortega succumbed to an inner journey and discovered the life and ideas of this attractive and secret figure. A hybrid genre book, while, in the manner of Borges, it combines an essay and a novel, La luz que cae opts for fiction. In its pages there are travels and translations through time, the vicissitudes of Kindaichi's life are narrated, his reflections and adventures, the relations between Japan and the Netherlands, the ideological tensions of a hermetic country from the 18th century to the Hiroshima catastrophe. it tells of Kindaichi's unusual stay in the Europe of Diderot and the French Revolution, and it is, finally, a vibrant song to nature in which an emotional encounter between the reader and himself is proposed. Adolfo García Ortega aspires to reach from you to you the hearts of readers with the heterodox proposal of this literary game. Because the light that falls is a transforming book, absolutely free and personal, and, like any book like that, it is destined to accompany those who read it forever.