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    Are You Busy Friday?
    Are You Busy Friday?
    Are You Busy Friday?
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    Are You Busy Friday?

    By Núria Salán Ballesteros

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    The story, written in the first person, is a collection of messages which form Maria’s sustained monologue with the world. Through her e-mails we find out about the questions she is facing and sense the answers she is considering. The protagonist shares with us a story which will, inevitably, be the turning point in her life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOmniaBooks
    Release dateSep 23, 2013
    ISBN9788494144721
    Are You Busy Friday?
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    Núria Salán Ballesteros

    Núria Salán Ballesteros va néixer a Barcelona, a la primavera de 1963 tot i que i als poquets dies la van portar a viure a Sant Boi de Llobregat, on ha viscut tota la seva vida.Llicenciada en Ciències Químiques i amb l’especialitat de Metal•lúrgia és investigadora i professora a la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).La seva part literària desperta ara ja fa uns anys, donant els primers fruits l’any 2011 que va guanyar el primer premi del Concurs de Relats Breus de Sant Joan Despí amb el relat breu El Curs de Gestió de l’Estrès, i amb la novel•la Quedem divendres? Inicia la seva etapa com escriptora fora de l’àmbit científic-tecnològic.

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      Book preview

      Are You Busy Friday? - Núria Salán Ballesteros

      Are you busy Friday?

      Núria Salán Ballesteros

      ISBN online: 978-87-941447-2-1

      ISBN imprès: 978-87-941447-0-7

      Legal Deposit: B-23158-2013

      PUBLISHED BY:

      OmniaBooks (Omnia Publisher SL) at Smashwords

      Copyright © 2013 by Omnia Publisher SL

      Cover image: Khrees Illustration & Design

      Cover design: Joan Rodó Amat

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-soldor given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person,please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and didnot purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Dedication

      To my daughters Anna and Eva,

      who have given me the gift of being a mother.

      One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

      Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986

      Live in such a way that nothing you do merits the reproach or condemnation of those around you.

      Simone Weil, 1909-1943

      " I am grateful to fate for three gifts:

      having been born a woman,

      of lower class

      and oppressed nation.

      And the turbid azure of being three times a rebel."

      M. Maria Mercè Marçal i Serra, 1952-1998

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to give very sincere thanks to all of the Marias who have crossed my path in life and have thereby nurtured me and helped me to grow.

      To all of the women in my family, for having helped me to design the lifestyle I have as my model today.

      To my friends at Can Jordana (Sant Boi de Llobregat) for encouraging me to write and for always being there on the other side. To all of the women I have worked with, everywhere I have worked, because they have shown me how to be a woman and how to get along with women.

      To my friend Pilar (Pi), because she is always up for reading what I write.

      The author

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      Foreword

      Perhaps humankind is not so different from the rest of its neighbors on the planet, especially other animals. We are predators in every sense of the word; we are weak when circumstances overwhelm us and bold when we feel secure. In addition, our need to communicate with each other is as vital as is breathing. And this is the key to everything…

      Núria Salán communicates with sublime control; she does so avidly and with a special charm. Of this I have no doubt. But the most remarkable thing is that in this work, Are You Busy Friday? she invites us to live and share with its main character a story that reflects very well what ‘communication’ means.

      Times change, and we have also done so against our will and swiftly. Postmen or mail carriers, intermediary figures of information and messages, have been cardinal in the history of our society, still today performing tasks that require their existence. Nonetheless, a new, virtual conduit for relating and communicating with each other has scaled the ranks of interaction –one we will seemingly never again be able to live without: email!

      Imagine the sent folder of anyone you don't know—imagine the stories and misadventures this electronic sentry guards, and very jealously, revealing them only to the account holder or chosen recipient to whom they are sent at the speed of light—letters that form words with a life of their own and phrases that seek to have their own voice, messages that are very often more emboldened when typed on a keyboard than when sender and receiver are face to face, feelings that occupy a specific place and come to life in their turn, as they cannot be governed by any sort of disciplined schedule.

      If we also possess creativity, a sense of humor and the author's ease with words for portraying the truths—sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter—that surround us, we find this: a story I will always remember as a modern fable that hooks you from the start and draws you into an intimacy, a life and characters that might seem invisible but who remain with you throughout the story.

      The cast of the book you are reading is original and appealing, and it beckons you to delve in and follow where it leads you. So much so that this foreword will take up no more of your time and I invite you to commence. Get comfortable—you are about to be trapped in Núria Salán's web, but don't fret, she spins with heart and intelligence. She moves you without harm, and that is only within the reach of a few.

      Enjoy your read and congratulations on such a fine choice!

      Amadeu Alemany. Sant Boi, April 2012

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      Subject: Are you busy Friday?

      Date: 11 May 2010, 20:00:25 + 0100

      From: Maria

      To: Juan

      Hey Juan!!!!

      Do you want to do something on Friday? I looked at what's showing in

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