Autobiographical Tales
Original title: Cuentos autobiográficos
A marvellous gift from the award winning author and recipient of the 2025 Premio Cervantes. Eighteen autobiographical tales. These fragmented nuanced evocative recollections, permeated by guilt, desire forreconciliation, and a painful lucidity in the face of faith. The mother, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful, a symbol of a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory, far from being redemptive, occupy a dense space, full of gaps, shadows, and contradictions. Pombo is an absolutely brilliant storyteller.
A marvellous gift from the award winning author and recipient of the 2025 Premio Cervantes. Eighteen autobiographical tales. These fragmented nuanced evocative recollections, permeated by guilt, desire forreconciliation, and a painful lucidity in the face of faith. The mother, inaccessible, authoritarian, powerful, a symbol of a moralistic and repressive Spain, whose promise of justice is never fulfilled. Memory, far from being redemptive, occupy a dense space, full of gaps, shadows, and contradictions. Pombo is an absolutely brilliant storyteller.
