It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship: Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Magina to write his thesis on an old friend of Manuel's, [...]

October 1936. Spanish architect Ignacio Abel arrives at Penn Station, the final stop on his journey from war-torn Madrid, where he has left behind his wife and children, abandoning them to uncertainty. Crossing the fragile borders of Europe, he reflects on months of fratricidal conflict in his embat[...]

When Santiago Biralbo, a piano player, falls in love with Lucrecia, a married woman, both face persecution from her husband, Bruce Malcolm, and from Toussaints Morton, a patron of an extreme right-wing organization.[...]

Den polske ryttaren har ingenting med Polen att göra. Den rör sig mellan två andra poler: Rembrandts »Den polske ryttaren« och The Doors sång »Riders in the Storm«. Det är en utvecklingsroman en spansk klassresa. Manuel kommer från den lilla andalusiska staden Mágina, som uppfunnits av f[...]

Kirjailijan pääteos on hiottu ja syvää humanismia huokuva kuvaus erilaisissa rajatiloissa häilyvistä, syrjään sysätyistä ihmisistä. Sefarad on kuningaspari Ferdinandin ja Isabellan 1400-luvun lopulla Espanjasta karkottamien juutalaisten antama nimi kadotetulle isänmaalleen, jonne nämä [...]