The event, set for 7:00 PM, will allow attendees to gain firsthand insight into this work, which marks the author's debut in the novel genre after a distinguished career in poetry and short stories. During the presentation, the writer will engage in a conversation with a professor of Spanish and Hispanic American Literature from the University of Seville and an editor from the José Manuel Lara Foundation.
The competition jury praised the narrative proposal of Al final de las voces, highlighting its ability to merge various registers, from crime fiction to historical and psychological narratives. The work successfully builds a sustained atmosphere of tension, with forays into the unsettling.
The plot revolves around the disappearance of a young journalism student in 1970s Spain, who had previously begun an investigation into her uncle's death. From this starting point, the novel unfolds as a fragmented narrative intertwining testimonies, documents, and multiple narrative voices, forming a kind of open file where each new discovery expands and, at the same time, complicates the understanding of the facts.
“"One of the central themes of the novel is the impossibility of knowing the truth."
The work prompts a deep reflection on the limits of knowledge and the difficulty of fully reconstructing the past. Instead of offering a definitive truth, the narrative progresses through partial versions, silences, and contradictions, immersing the reader in a constantly shifting reality. In this context, the settings acquire a symbolic dimension that intensifies the narrative tension. The mine, a crucial element in the story, functions as a metaphor for the hidden: a place where secrets, guilt, and remnants of a buried history resist full revelation.




