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West End
In West End, José Morella reconstructs the story of his grandfather Nicomedes, who suffered from mental illness during a time when any treatment was obstructed by the denial typical of the Franco era. Nicomedes' story was a taboo subject, always silenced at family gatherings. José Morella, with the aid of very little surviving evidence, manages to convince members of his family to speak out, in order to reveal a moving story of the courage of his grandfather; a story that also tells the crude reality of Spain in the seventies. The result is liberating, because beyond the story of Nicomedes, a novel that travels from the Andalusian countryside to Ibiza, is also the story of immigrants, and a profound reflection on the fragility of the self and how we construct our own identity.