THE 11:11 TRAIN

THE 11:11 TRAIN

Some people interpret the "11:11 train" as a metaphor to describe the opportunity to get on a train that leads to a fuller and more meaningful life. It is considered a propitious time to make changes, make important decisions or express your desires and goals. Olgalucía Gaviria Ángel invites her anonymous readers to delve into the myriad facets of her life. We can imagine she sensed she couldn’t, perhaps shouldn’t, stop those of us who–like her–seek to inhabit realms of introspection and existential questioning, from boarding The 11:11 Train. In her second novel, the author intertwines the profoundly simple, yet lovely, moments of earthly existence, with profound musings on the ever-present and uncertain nature of love and death. These themes manifest as fortuitously simultaneous and parallel dimensions, allowing the characters in her novel the freedom to experience moments of illusion, prevention, acceptance, understanding, and projection, both timelessly and inexplicably ethereally. As our eyes follow the opening line, we embark on a utopian journey of no return, venturing towards the boundary where the tangible and the mystical merge to explore the labyrinthine paths of love and the invisible forces that both shape and distort the reader’s conception of the cosmos. The reader will never be the same. We discover that mysticism transcends the constraints of time and space; it is the force of love that enables navigating beyond the transience of earthly existence and embarking on a journey towards eternity. OLYMPO MORALES BENíTEZ