Tenemos que hablar

En la oscura España de principios de los sesenta, la infancia de Ana de Sotomayor, hija de una familia de terratenientes extremeños, transcurre feliz hasta que la ruina de la familia empieza a planear sobre ellos. A las grandes fiestas y largos veraneos les seguirán la nevera vacía, la desaparición de cuadros, los llantos y los silencios. Con su particular manera de interpretar la realidad, Ana intenta comprender lo que sucede en casa y justificar el comportamiento excéntrico que muestra Luis, su padre, desde la trágica muerte de su único hermano José. ¿Qué es lo que le impulsa a...

One of the most emblematic and fascinating women in history, Isabel I of Castilla, is reimagined in the pages of this fictional account of her youth. In spite of documents about her indomitable character and smart rulership, there remain mysteries about her life that this novel begins to untangle, while also raising fundamental questions about destiny and the human condition.

In 1982, when he was just three years old, Samir was abandoned by his mother on the beach of El Saler. She blindfolded him and said: Don't move, I'll come right away. But she never did. No one knew why she did not return and that child ended up in a juvenile center with no other identity than his name and a handful of memories. Samir grew up among orphans and disinherited from the world, but with the determination to have a chance in life. Thirty years after his mother left him on that beach, Samir is no longer a helpless child, but a captain of the Valencia Judicial Police. However, his past ...

In this collection of short stories there are issues such as the anxious await by employees for new management that will approve salary increases, the calm awakening of a man on his day off from work, and a woman telling a man that she is the mother of his child. These most simple anecdotes of daily life are reflected with such splendor and vitality through Benedetti’s concise and clear prose.