Any Summer is an Ending by Ray Loriga

Any summer is an end
by Ray Loriga

Someone wants to die. He is no longer young, and he wonders why he will have another day, no matter how privileged, fun and kind his life still is. Someone wants to love. He doesn’t know for sure if he is loved in return, if his feelings will be understood, if he even has the right to express them. Someone travels. He visits cities, beaches, bars, exotic parties, cabins by the water where he spends the night drinking and laughing. Someone illustrates beautiful books and someone takes care of editing them. They work without hurrying, with mutual admiration, with a certain decadent feeling of existing in a world that is disappearing. Someone has had a serious health problem, gets up slowly, feels his clothes and decides to take advantage of the second chance. Someone is liked, arouses desire, is always passing through the lives of others, smiles, pays for dinner. Someone is the best friend and the favorite person of another. Someone wants to die.

Ray Loriga narrates the abysses of these characters, and composes a symphony about friendship, love and the end of youth. A novel in which death is discussed toasting life. A novel about the summer that still remains to be enjoyed before winter arrives.

Ray Loriga (Madrid, 1967), novelist, screenwriter and film director, is the author of the novels The Worst of All, Heroes, Fallen from the Sky, Tokyo No Longer Loves Us, Trífero, The Man Who Invented Manhattan, He Only Talks About Love Now, Hat and Mississippi, The Tear Drinker, Za Za, Emperor of Ibiza, Surrender (Alfaguara Novel Prize), Saturday, Sunday and Any Summer is an End. He is also the author of the short story books Strange Days, Even Stranger Days and The Officers and the Fate of Cordelia. His literary work, translated into eighteen languages, is one of the most highly valued by national and international critics. As a film scriptwriter, he has worked with, among others, Pedro Almodóvar and Carlos Saura. He has directed the films My Brother’s Gun, an adaptation of his novel Fallen from the Sky, and Teresa, the Body of Christ. He has collaborated with publications such as Ajoblanco, El Europeo, El País and El Canto de la Tripulación.