THE BLIND MAN’S DAUGHTER

Illustration and graphic design of the book cover for journalist, presenter, and writer Yaiza Díaz.

A book published by Editorial Kinnamon where the author shows us her reason for being as a journalist. She brings us closer to blindness and turns the novel into an ambassador for the city of La Laguna, where she grew up selling coupons with her father until she became a news presenter. At thirty-eight years old and with an extensive professional career, including fourteen years at Canary Television, Yaiza Díaz is encouraged to publish her first novel, The Blind Man’s Daughter. Díaz summarizes the essence of this book in the story of a girl named Marina who is born with the need to communicate, to explain to her blind father what the world was like and that he should not miss any detail. “This is my reason for being as a journalist, because that girl is me, and this book is a
demonstration of love towards my father that I now want to share with all of you in order to bring you closer to blindness in the most natural way, as we experienced it in my house.”
Of course, the journalist warns that it is a book only suitable for people who read with their heart, and she has spent a lifetime storing situations in her
mind because “I knew that one day I had to tell it.” It is a book that takes place in the city of La Laguna, where she grew up selling coupons near the Cathedral. Anyone who reads this story of complicity between father and daughter will walk with them through the streets of La Laguna and recognize its bars, feel cold with them, go to football matches together, among many other things, be moved, and laugh.