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In her first novel on the subject of Basque terrorism, Etxenike deals with the traumatic experience of political violence with great literary effect. Language and narrative experimentation are the vehicles which the author uses to express the complex emotions of the victims of a terrorist attack.

El azul sobrante is a collection of short stories by José Jiménez Lozano, Cervantes Prize for Literature. Jiménez Lozano created adventures that journey to the lands of human passion or pause in the wounds opened by a higher form of love. The Avila resident describes what is hidden in the folds of the human heart and the secret sewn into the last openings of the interlining of history.

Juan Antonio Masoliver Ródenas writes that nostalgia is a mirage that must be combatted because it takes up and idealises a past that most probably never existed, while constantly compelling us to give it shape.

Verónica León is an inspector of Homicides in Madrid. For the last couple of years she has been in a somewhat tortuous relationship with sub-inspector Roberto Vidal, who separated from his wife around the same time. During one of their occasional meetings, they are told that an old man has been murdered.