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Forty years have gone by since Anjel Lertxundi published his first book. In this fragmented essay, his gaze and memory pass over this long literary career, and the journey, as Cavafy would wish, has been fruitful. In short texts, like the tessera of a mosaic, the author shapes a general balance of his professional life, closely connnected to the act of writing.

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Madelaine, a thirty-six year old young doctor, has to return to the home of her ancestors, the Martínez Durango family, in San Gabriel after the death of her Aunt Rosa. The Durangos are the principal family in the village and own most of the land and the more prosperous businesses but an old legend of woe hangs over them.

A journey composed of multiple voyages, this book is a compendium, bringing together very different experiences from the author’s life. Convinced of the essential truth of the words of a fisherman (‘If you get caught in a whirlpool when you’re swimming, don’t try to fight it. Let yourself be sucked in.