Sur

A dazzling, Joycean achievement by one of Spain's greatest living novelists.On a sweltering hot August day in Málaga, dawn breaks over a patch of waste ground and a man lying close to death. From this vivid encounter, a kaleidoscopic narrative unfolds over a single day, as the suffocating terral wind spreads its malign influence over the city. We meet the dying man's family, his doctor wife and entitled son; a picture framer and his alcoholic brother; their mother and her entrepreneur boyfriend; the framer's colleague and his wife who has given all their savings to the local priest; drug dealers and addicts... Edasi