En el funeral ha aparecido un misterioso francés que resulta saber mucho más de su padre de lo que ella nunca supo. Será entonces cuando Ofelia se pregunte quiénes fueron realmente sus padres, a los que siempre vio como un humilde trabajador ferroviario y una portera de un edificio señorial.

Lo que está a punto de descubrir podría desbaratar por completo su percepción sobre la vida, su familia y la historia de nuestro país.

Con una escritura que emociona y estremece, Esther López Barceló disipa esa niebla espesa que cubrió durante lustros el recuerdo de los momentos más duros de la Dictadura.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

How many decades of silence can a family resist?

An ambitious novel about historical memory, love, and the fortitude of women after the war.

Ofelia just lost her father, and after receiving the news, she returns to her native city. Once there, she not only finds her childhood home, but a family past she did not know.

At the funeral, a mysterious Frenchman arrives and happens to know more about her father than she ever did. It is then that Ofelia wonders who her mother and father really were, whom she always had as the gatekeeper of a stately building and a humble railroad worker.

What she is about to learn might disrupt her perception of life, family, and the story of Spain entirely.

With an emotional and thrilling narrative, Esther López Barceló clears the heavy mist hanging over decades of memories of the most difficult moments in Franco's dictatorship.