
Los buenos amigos
Destino, octubre 2016 | The Best of Friends
Press
«Written in the finest 19th-centruy style, albeit through a trenchant 21st-century gaze.»
Matías Néspolo, El Mundo
«Not one for beating around the bush, the author charts a direct course, delighting the reader on every page.»
Àlex Tort, La Vanguardia
«His writing is heartfelt, profound, engrossing, deftly wrought and fully formed.»
Bernardo Gutiérrez, Qué leer
«With precise and well-structured writing, Lahoz speaks of the "snake egg" that waits at the bottom of any human heart.»
J. Arnáiz, La Razón (8/10)
«Lahoz pierces the reader through with a powerful story of friendship and love. His most ambitious novel so far.»
Paula Arenas, 20 minutos
Synopsis
(The Best of Friends) Use Lahoz returns with a major new novel in which no one is quite who they seem. A story of love and slander, feast and famine, guilt and innocence, friendship and betrayal; and one that cements Lahoz’s position in the literary firmament.
The nineteen fifties: at the tender age of eight, Sixto Baladia looks on as his happy days in his childhood Aragón village draw to a close. Following the sudden death of his parents, he ends up in an orphanage in the big city, always more prosperous than the provinces further inland. It is here that he will embark on a new life and make the acquaintance of Vicente Cástaras, a slightly older boy, a charming swindler who will soon become his inseparable companion and protector. But time flies and, as they grow up, these one-time soulmates, almost brothers, will find that jealousy, rifts and feelings of betrayal will tear them apart once and for all. Or, at least, so they believe. For some years down the line, in an unexpected turn of events, fate will cause their paths to cross once more, and their nostalgic reunion will for Sixto soon become a nightmare from which he cannot awake, a silent persecution in which the two friends find themselves reprising their former roles, and notions of friendship, loyalty, success and triumph will be sorely tested.
A flawless portrait of Spanish emigration, told by the have-nots. A cartography of an era that was a grand comedie humaine.
MB Authors
- Pepa AGUAR
- Pablo ARANDA
- Juan Luis ARSUAGA
- Manuel ASTUR
- Flavita BANANA
- Joan BARRIL
- Nuria BARRIOS
- María BASTARÓS
- Felipe BENÍTEZ REYES
- Joan-Daniel BEZSONOFF
- BLACKIE BOOKS
- Joana BONET
- Juan BONILLA
- Emilio BUESO
- Bibiana CANDIA
- Leonardo CANO
- Pablo CARBONELL
- Martín CASARIEGO
- Nicolás CASARIEGO
- Paula CIFUENTES
- Juan CUADRA
- Mario CUENCA SANDOVAL
- Malén DENÍS
- Elizabeth DUVAL
- Maria ESCALAS
- Cristina FALLARÁS
- Eneko FERNÁNDEZ
- Laura FERRERO
- Josep Maria FONALLERAS
- Albert FORNS CANAL
- Miguel GALLARDO
- Olivia GALLO
- Xenia GARCÍA
- Ignacio GARCÍA-VALIÑO
- José A. GARRIGA VELA
- David B. GIL
- Santi GIMÉNEZ
- Marcos GIRALT TORRENTE
- Enric GONZÁLEZ
- Ismael GRASA
- Javier GUTIÉRREZ
- Luci GUTIÉRREZ
- Najat El HACHMI
- Alicia KOPF
- Use LAHOZ
- Lucía LIJTMAER
- Shaina Joy MACHLUS
- Adrià MARQUÈS
- Ignacio MARTÍNEZ DE PISóN
- Ramon MAS
- Ana MERINO
- Luna MIGUEL
- Amarna MILLER
- Miquel OBIOLS
- Bruno ORO
- Miqui OTERO
- Anna PACHECO
- Vicenç PAGÈS JORDÀ
- Enric PARDO
- Concepción PEREA
- Juan Manuel DE PRADA
- Jordi PUNTÍ
- Llucia RAMIS
- Antonio J. RODRÍGUEZ
- Félix ROMEO
- Carmen ROMERO
- Xavier RUBERT DE VENTÓS
- Gemma RUIZ
- Juanjo SÁEZ
- Gabriel SALVADÓ
- Màrius SERRA
- Rubén SERRANO
- Ramon SOLSONA
- José Miguel TOMASENA
- David TRUEBA
- Juan VICO
- Enrique VILA-MATAS
- Rosario VILLAJOS
- Rolando VILLAZÓN
- Pedro ZARRALUKI