First published 2000
This Spanish translation of Pauline Melville's novel follows characters caught between worlds of performance and reality. The story explores themes of voice, identity, and cultural displacement through the lens of ventriloquism as both art and metaphor. Melville weaves together multiple narratives that examine how people project their voices through others and struggle to find their authentic selves. The novel moves between different settings and time periods, connecting characters whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. At its heart, the book examines the complex relationships between storyteller and audience, between those who speak and those who listen, and the ways people use others to express what they cannot say themselves.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Spain
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
Paperback · Ediciones B