Three people will spend a summer solstice night in the city of Murcia
that will be hard to forget. Jacinto, a Mexican bodyguard who works for Don
Jorge, will have to settle an account with the killers of a protégé, while his
boss celebrates a big party. His path will cross María’s,
a fifteen year-old spending the night out with her friends, who is very willing
to try new experiences to forget her family history. María does not suspect
that her neighbor, Ginés, a
mysterious and lonely fellow, is also out walking through the same roads and
beaches where she has been that night, or that he has participated in Don
Jorge’s party and knows Jacinto.
A direct tale, surprisingly effective and compulsive, about the secret
lives of three characters that emerge in the middle of the night to wander
through atmospheres and groups seldom portrayed so vividly in Spanish
literature. A convergence of different lives in the process of eruption on a
night full of risk and excess, when a love story unexpectedly begins.
The jury of the IX Tusquets Editores
Prize for Novel has noted the narrative vigor of
three forceful stories that cross paths on a summer night. The novel is told
with credibility and growing vertigo and talks about the eagerness of a young
woman to grow out of adolescence and far from the model of her mother, all in
the midst of gangs and the settling of accounts, of parties and bets taken to
the limit. In the words of Almudena Grandes, a member
of the jury, during the book presentation, Ginés
Sánchez is “a most valuable author consolidated with a moving novel that
manages to approach the margins of danger and the cutting edge of death.”
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