Set in one of the most bourgeois neighborhoods of Madrid, through the story of three generations of a family marked by an impossible love, this novel tells us about some pivotal years in the life of Spain, after the death of Franco and the political transformation that it entailed. Does anything really change, or is everything really upside down? That is the question that affects most of the bourgeois families in the neighborhood, who regard it as a threat. For them, life's rites, customs and beliefs are unchanging, and the richest and most powerful among them disregard any possible alternative to their status quo. Almost twenty years after its debut, Galaxia Gutenberg reissues this novel, which won the National Critics Award and is still considered a masterpiece. An essential novel that belongs with the best European narrative of the 20th century.