Aixa de la Cruz demystifies the couple in ‘Everything begins with blood’

The Basque writer Aixa de la Cruz investigates the conditionings of the couple and the ideal of romantic love in her new novel, Everything begins with blood, an invitation to lose fear of silence and spiritual search. Like her protagonist, Violeta, De la Cruz (Bilbao, 1988) was fascinated by Emily Brönte’s small drunken summits, and as an adult she discovered how such readings had made her idealize a love “romantic, passional, perfect”. “The tru…