Nothing to lose
by Susana Fortes
On the evening of August 12, 1979, brothers Nicolás and Hugo and little Blanca disappear in a town in Baixo Miño. The girl is found the next morning in a wicker basket on the opposite bank of the river with no memory of what happened. Despite an intense search, the bodies of the two children are never found.
Twenty-five years later, the discovery of bone remains at an archaeological site indicates that these are the two missing brothers. From then on, Blanca and the journalist Lois Lobo begin a complex search to discover what happened through the deceptive paths of memory and the taboos of a hermetic society accustomed to dirty laundry being washed at home.
A striking plot full of tension and mystery, with an evocative style in which images and story merge to illuminate the shadowy areas.
The truth is elusive. Pursue it with caution.
Susana Fortes (Pontevedra) is a writer and newspaper columnist. For years she has taught art history in Valencia. She currently collaborates in creative writing courses and workshops at various universities. Author of, among other novels, Querido Corto Maltés (New Narrator Prize 1994); Las cenizas de la Bounty (Espasa, 1998); Fronteras de arena (finalist for the Primavera Prize 2001) and El amante albanés (finalist for the Planeta Prize 2003), she has also published the film notebook Adiós, muñecas (Espasa, 2002) and El azar de Laura Ulloa (Planeta, 2006), which won the Critics’ Prize in the Valencian Community. Her first major international success was with the historical novel Quattrocento (Planeta, 2007) and, above all, with Esperando a Robert Capa (Fernando Lara Novel Prize 2009), which has been translated into more than 15 languages. Her latest published works are Septiembre puede esperar (Planeta, 2017) and the book of memories Tal como éramos (Ézaro, 2021).
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