The pain of others : a novel / Miguel Ángel Hernández ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Miguel Ángel, 1977- Author.

Contributor:

West, Adrian Nathan, translator.

Standardized Title:

Dolor de los demás. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/a1df074a-98b0-4bea-5943-0ef0ef6c53ca

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Memory--Fiction.

Memory.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

305 pages : illustrations (some color) : 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Other Press LLC, [2026]

Summary:

"In this blend of police thriller and poignant autofiction, a writer revisits a tragic crime from his adolescence and reckons with a dark, underexplored side of Spain. On Christmas Eve 1995, Miguel Ángel Hernández's best friend murdered his sister and took his own life by jumping off a cliff. It happened in a small hamlet in the Murcia countryside. No one ever knew why. The investigation was closed, and the crime forgotten. 20 years later, when the wounds seem to have stopped bleeding and the mourning died down, Miguel decides to return to the countryside and, putting himself in the shoes of a detective, tries to reconstruct that tragic night that marked the end of his adolescence. But travelling in time always means altering the past, and the investigation will awaken ghosts that he thought he had left behind: a childhood marked by the Church, by sin and guilt; the constant presence of illness and death; the oppressive, closed world from which he managed to escape. This raw, moving novel about the collision of two worlds and two ways of life is a reckoning with the past and, above all, a subtle and incisive meditation on the ethics of literature, which makes us aware that "writing isn't always a triumph, that sometimes, we too may founder upon the pain of others.""-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Hernández, Miguel Ángel, 1977- Pain of others

ISBN:

9781635424607

1635424607

OCLC:

1528540249

Publisher Number:

90104432996