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"

."

This is how Netflix promotes

, the series that has reached number 1 on the platform in Europe after its premiere on January 27 and has entered the

surpassing

And the author of the book that he adapts,

, the most widely read in Spain during confinement, corroborates this.

"The novel is a search, and at that time of the pandemic we were all lost. Locked up at home, but in reality we were not. There was no trace of our previous life. The fact that there was the same search where so many people were involved was what that made it successful. Everyone wanted to find Kira in the novel, and now Amaya in the series," explains the best-selling writer (1,700,000 copies sold in a dozen languages) in statements to this newspaper.

The fiction begins in Malaga, in the middle of the Three Kings Parade in 2010. The most magical moment of the year turns into a nightmare for the Martín family (

and

) when their daughter Amaya

and

) disappear in the crowd.

Miren

), a trainee journalist, begins an investigation parallel to that of inspector Belén Millán (

) that will awaken aspects of her past that she would have wanted to forget.

With the help of her journalist colleague Eduardo (

), Look, he won't stop until he finds the girl.

The search will extend over the years, with different clues (some locks of hair, a VHS tape sent to the minor's family) that will lead to gruesome revelations.

Adapted for the screen by

and

(

) and directed by

(

) and

(

), the Atípica Films production is divided into six episodes in which multiple time lines with clever twists that keep the viewer tense.

The mystery grows

an ensemble cast that includes the participation of

,

,

and

, and an ending that leaves the audience confused.

Curiously, Castillo's

is not set in Malaga, but in New York.

The starting point is the 1998 Thanksgiving parade. However, the series has been faithful to the guidelines of the original work.

The change originates from the sale of the rights by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial to Netflix Spain, which in April 2021 announced the acquisition of this and two other Spanish novels:

, by

and

, by

There is also a confluence of the growing fame that Christmas in Malaga is achieving, the contrasts offered by the landscape of the region and the fact that the author himself was born there.

"In the end,

" says Castillo about the changes made in the adaptation.

In the book, the protagonist has suffered a sexual assault that was not resolved, but she is more vengeful and has access to weapons, something that has been blurred in the homeland adaptation.

On the other hand, Inspector

from the novel becomes Inspector Millán in the jump to television, causing most of the action to fall on two female characters, dealing with issues such as violence against women or motherhood.

The focus is also placed on journalism, with a Coronado who once again takes up the pen of a reporter, a profession that brought him so much joy when he starred in

with great success for seven seasons

, and whose first The phrase in The Snow Girl is an ode to the profession: "The best attribute of an investigative journalist is tenacity, the desire to put things in their place no matter how difficult they may seem."

And it is that the veteran actor, the guild especially attracts him.

"

," says the interpreter to LOC, delighted to hand over the headliner to the rising Milena Smit, and aware that there is something that unites his acting facet with his frustrated vocation: "For journalists and actors, what happens to us at work we take home with us."

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