Lara is yet to turn fifteen and everything is already falling apart. It's a fight between life and death. A flare up of her illness has left her in the intensive care unit, spending the night that could be decisive alone.
Many surprises await the reader of this novel, including the delicate art of the goldsmith and Ignacio Abad’s precise way of developing and unfolding the plot.
Shortly before the start of the Spanish Civil War, a young man from Tangier is assigned to a disciplinary company in charge of carrying out firing squad executions in Cape Juby, in North Africa’s Spanish protectorate.
The narrative begins with the discovery of a body in the swamp in Olba. The protagonist, Esteban, has been forced to close the furniture shop he owned, leaving his workers jobless and on the dole.
In the Other's Hair follows the lives of two young women from the first months of 1971 to the present day. On the one hand is Ramona Marquès, abandoned by a revolutionary who disappeared from her life, leaving her pregnant.
Cecilia is the only person who visits Silvio, her best friend's grandfather, a man who jealously guards the mystery of a legendary life which he has never wanted to share with anyone.
In crisis-ridden Madrid, where the nights are "a place of frustrated emotions, dreams and passions shattered against the wall of a bar", a series of characters on the edge of another crisis, the thirty-something crisis, are looking for a direction
Lily Meyer is a writer, translator, and critic. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her ...