| PAGES | 160 |
| SERIES | Narrativas hispánicas |
| PUBLICATION | 02/10/2024 |
SERIES:Narrativas hispánicas
A novel about accepting the cracks and fissures that shape our lives.
The novel begins with the sudden death of the narrator’s younger brother, a fifty-year-old historian and archivist. His passing triggers the entire plot, from the narrator’s journey to arrange the funeral during lockdown to managing and distributing the deceased’s belongings. The loss leads her to recall their past and the last mo- ments spent with her brother, reflecting on the inevitable, imperfection, and death. Four of the five sections in the work focus on mourning, while the “inserted story” narrates the origins of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold dust. This way, this auto- biographical story becomes a metaphor: life’s cracks and breaks gain beauty and value by being made visible, becoming golden fractures.
| PAGES | 160 |
| SERIES | Narrativas hispánicas |
| PUBLICATION | 02/10/2024 |
Paloma Díaz-Mas (Madrid, 1954) is a research professor at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and was for eighteen years professor of literature at the University of the País Vasco. She has published studies of oral and Romance literature, Medieval Spanish literatureand Sephardi culture. At the age of only nineteen she published her first book of short stories (recently re-published as an E-book under the title Ilustres desconocidos). At Anagrama she haspublished the novels El rapto del Santo Grial (runner-up for the 1st Premio Herralde de Novela 1983), El sueño de Venecia (Premio Herralde de Novela 1992) and La tierra fértil (Premio Euskadi 2000 and runner-up for the Premio de la Crítica); the book of stories Nuestro milenio (1987), the autobiographical tales Una ciudad llamada Eugenio (1992) and Como un libro cerrado (2005). She also worked on two collections of stories edited by Laura Freixas, Madres e hijas (2002) and Cuentos de amigas (2009).
