My name will be Silver Stardust
by Nuria M. Dean
Madrid, 1999. Silver, a middle-aged junkie, drives a car to a shanty town on the outskirts of the city to buy drugs. Minutes later, the driver of the car dies before his eyes from an overdose and Silver sees no other way out than to flee with the car. When, far from the town, he decides to search the interior of the vehicle, he discovers a bag full of bills in the trunk.
Silver is blessed with luck, and always has been. He sets off on an erratic journey through a city on the verge of Christmas, heading to his father’s house, with whom he wants to talk to clear things up. As he does so, he is flooded with memories of the past, marked by his father figure, by his large family (he is the youngest of five siblings), by the conflicts with his mother, with whom he did not get along as a child, and by his memories as a pre-adolescent, when at twelve years old he believed he was about to conquer the world, dreaming of playing for Real Madrid, of forming his own rock band and of becoming someone worthy of the hopes his father had placed in him.
Nuria M. Dean (Madrid, 1971) is an editor, translator and journalist. She currently works as an editor at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. She has translated films, essays, novels and children’s books. As a journalist, she has collaborated with various media, including Radio RAI, Radio Svizzera Italiana, the El Viajero supplement of the newspaper El País, and Caballo Verde, the now defunct cultural supplement of La Razón. Me llamaré Silver Stardust is her first novel.
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