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Benito Pérez Galdós was a man who had many lovers, but always refused commitment and marriage. He shut himself away and wrote like a galley slave to create characters through which he left traces of his own biography.

The Son of Mama Dana is set in the depths of the Colombian coffee region, in a small village nestled in the mountains near the home of the Emberá peoples. The unusual Dutchman, Hyeronimus Paling, appears four times in the narrative and gradually reveals the scene, the characters in the drama, the situation of violence and impunity, and the silence that hangs over it all.

After the success of Fine Rain, Landero is back with his own memories and reading of his universe, in this memorable book that beautifully traces memories as a child in Extremadura, a teenager recently arrived in Madrid and a young man beginning his working life, with stories and situations displayed in the book with the same passion and voracity as the real world.

“Democracy and the Constitution, which were born almost at the same time as we were, told us that everyone had the right to be whatever they wanted to be. All of society agreed and came together to preserve our hopes and dreams. We were going to be whatever we wanted to be.