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She was the younger sister of his best friend, in love with the colour yellow and who created her own sky full of invented constellations. He was the rebel in the leather jacket who used his biro to draw everything that moved him. Together they raced through childhood, made memories and missed one another - even when the only barrier between them was the space between each other's lips.
These are uncertain, unstable times, with the desire for a new republic and repeated attempts to overthrow the monarchy of Alfonso XIII. Joaquín Córdoba is urgently summoned by his friend Mateo, and he reaches Toledo as a characteristic fog masks the city's millennial splendour from view.
"Wave of Cold" is not a novel about drugs and alcohol nor the descent into the hell of addiction. Nor is it a novel about the economic crisis, nor how this has changed the face of Madrid forever. It is not a story about individual or collective failure. No, it is simply a devastating portrait of loneliness and desperation. It is not a study of raw sexuality.