The pink power ranger, Christo Casas

From time to time, we like to read books that make us laugh. And this could well be classified as humorous. But The Pink Power Ranger, by Christo Casas, is also a tribute book that brings several tears to your eyes as you read it because of the tenderness in his pen.

Do you want to know what it is about? And why is it a tribute? Do you know Christo Casas? If all this interests you, then keep reading so you can learn more about the book and its author.

Synopsis of The Pink Power Ranger

As the author explains in an interview with elDiario.es, The Pink Power Ranger They are all the people who have been classified, or are classified, as strange, different or weak, regardless of their gender, origins, functional diversity... Although it has a feminine connotation (since the character was always played by a woman), the truth is that he gives it a voice and, above all, importance to stand out precisely because of how different they are.

Here we leave you the synopsis where you will discover more about him:

«A young Spaniard stumbles through Berlin. Apps for finding an apartment, work and sex coexist on his phone. His grandmother also emigrated to Germany, but she ended up returning to the town to start a family. There he witnesses how his grandson makes two discoveries: that he is queer and that he is poor.
And don't think I'm not afraid of you going to Germany. Who knows how many troubles you have to go through. But grandmother, I am a man. Yes, but you are going to fall in love with other men and it is them that I cannot trust. Wait, I have the pot on the fire.
A young Spanish man arrives in Berlin in search of work. At night he puts drinks in a fag bar and during the day he tries to write the story of his grandmother, who also lived in Germany many years ago.
The old woman's voice on the recorder takes him back to the town of La Mancha where he grew up as a child. When you're a queer kid you can't defend yourself, because the whole town knows it before you know it. The best thing is to escape, don't confront them, his grandmother tells him. She also escaped many years ago. She was fleeing violence, in different circumstances, and also how he was trying to make a living.
In the immense distance that separates our sexual life from that of our grandmothers, there is the disappointment of realizing that, no matter how much you try to start over, no matter how much dirt you put in your way, you are going to spend your life leaving the class closet. Although, as with the other closet, everyone already knows that you are poor before you know it.
El Guapo gave himself the nickname, of course, and we all fell silent. The pink Power Ranger is obviously me. Because I don't know it yet, but I'm already a faggot. They call it faggot behind my back, I suppose, like we call Laughter fat or Brunette ugly. The truth is that I have never seen Power Rangers. But I know that pink is the girl and I know that it is not good to be called girl.

Reviews and critiques of The Pink Power Ranger

It's hard to find something that Amazon doesn't have. But the truth is that we were surprised when, when looking for this book, we discovered that it is not available in this marketplace. Even so, there are many who have left reviews of The Pink Power Ranger on different pages, one of the main Goodreads.

From there we have taken some of the criticisms and reviews of the book (published in 2020). Look at them:

«It is a very short book, easy to read but with a great emotional charge. It grabs you from the beginning and you read it in one go. He tells us the story of a gay boy who emigrates to Germany, interspersing his narration with that of his grandmother who also emigrated years ago. Told in first person by the protagonist and with time jumps. The grandmother's story is also a hard story, she had to live through very difficult situations. In a few pages the author tells us about discrimination, they call you something that you yourself do not yet know what you are. Of the cruelty of words that stick deep inside us and are not difficult to forget. But it also talks about family, about those fighting grandmothers. If you haven't read it, you have to read it. "It will leave your heart soft."

«A short and very intense story about love and personal relationships. With this book I have cried and I have laughed.

«I was thinking about whether to rate it with 4 or 5 stars, and I'm going straight to the fifth because how much tenderness and how difficult it is to tell such raw and difficult stories from that Marika experience, weaving it so beautifully in, above all, that tenderness between grandmother and grandson. A small book that has at the same time a class consciousness, a crudeness of protest from the Marika and what she said, the tenderness flying over everything... that makes it enormous. And I have also recognized myself a lot in the rage of the birds, the feathers, the desire to fly very far from here or put my head in my hands, without a release date, perhaps already turned into an ostrich.

«I have had a conflicting experience with this book. The story is undoubtedly interesting, and has poetic moments, but the prose and rhythms choked me at times. I really wanted to get into Casas' tempo, but I couldn't quite be in sync. The images seemed a little childish to me, the beginning perhaps excessively vulgar, but even so I got something out of this: a sincere story. A warm elegy.
Perhaps that is why it has been an exercise in frustration. Something that a deeper edition would have solved, because what there is has potential.
I will be attentive to this author, anyway, because it is clear that he has things to say.

«The plot is good and deals with super interesting themes. But it fell short for me. It doesn't delve into anything and that's why I get the feeling that everything it deals with ends up being seen from a simplistic perspective. I would have liked it more if it had focused on some of the themes in more detail or at least if it had expanded more on the protagonist's feelings.
Overall good, I would recommend it.

From what you can read, The vast majority of them do not have as much opinion on the subject of the protagonist's sexuality as they do on the role of the grandmother. and they praise that an author has focused on and acclaimed the figure of that family that we sometimes so forget.

Who is Christo Casas

Now that you know The Pink Power Ranger, it's time to give you some insights into Christo Casas. For a start, He defines himself as a "working class faggot and a journalist angry with journalism."

And Casas, born in 1991, Graduated in Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Valencia and currently works as communications director of the Barcelona Youth Council. However, he has not abandoned his studies, because he is immersed in anthropology.

Of course, he also combines all this with literature.

Works by Christo Casas

Actually, the book with which Christo Casas has become known is The Pink Power Ranger. However, from what we have found investigating, he has two more books, at least where his name appears.

The first is Bad faggots: Building a collective future from dissidence. This book, published in 2023, would be the author's second. In it, Casas carries out an essay to delve into the "heteronormative" behavior of the LGTB+ group. It covers general areas such as marriage, work, old age, culture...

And the second, Film notes: LGTB, where he apparently participates with other authors to review LGBT cinema with films and series that have marked this group.

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