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A book of stories that unfolds like a fragmentary recollection, shot through with exaltation, guilt, desire, reconciliation, and an often painful lucidity. The beloved, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful woman can also epitomize a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory,...

In The Iridium Platinum Metro, Alvaro Pombo deploys an astonishing wealth of registers to portray the emotions and conflicts of a group of characters in 1980s Madrid. Love, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this exceptional novel, which won the Critics' Prize and established Pombo...

A dazzling novel exploring the human soul’s depths—faith, doubt, deception, and desire. Juan Cabrera, a 72-year-old former monk, lives in seclusion until his nephew Jaime arrives. Jaime’s former teacher, Antón Rubial, now married to Petri del Bar, is entwined in a web of secrets,...