As soon as the reader crosses the labyrinthine gate with Ophelia, he finds himself in a turbulent world full of magic and enchantment during the civil war that wrote a bloody page in the history of Spain.
The novel begins with little Ophelia traveling to an old house on the edge of the forest full of shadows, and ends with a crying infant who will never know his father’s name, passing through fairies, the faun, the pale man who eats young, and other mythical and human monsters... In “Pan’s Labyrinth,” reality and imagination come together. , history and myth, tragedy and comedy, in a charming story about love and loss that takes place in beautiful yet dark worlds. It is a rich mixture that leaves the recipient immersed in a state of sweet numbness that the passionate reader knows, repeating with the author: “Oh, the things we return with from the mazes!”