This is a story of love and friendship. The story revolves around Benet Enrich, the main character, born in Catalonia in 1931, and his friendship with a Scottish brigadier, George. They met during the Spanish Civil War and found each other again after more than thirty years. George’s voice, as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph, narrates the beginning and the end of the novel. Ironic with...

“R sat on the carpet beside the bed, just as he had seen him the night of the storm than a year earlier life had changed them both. He gasped and stared, motionless, as if in summer he lies in the sun on the deck, wrapped in heat. ” Sitting in a cafe one afternoon in early summer, Fer and his mother, Amalia, wait for a call that never comes. During the following hours, Fer will do...