Two strangers have to share a three-story house for a few days, and both are determined to maintain order and to be indispensable; a young violinist discovers that you don't have to go far to find happiness; two friends search in nature for an anchorage that could prove to be definitive; a mother takes it upon herself to terrify her son so that he never leaves her side; Scott returns to England after his polar expedition but no one will receive him; a woman has to escape from the island she is on and flee from what haunts her there. The fourteen stories that make up "The Cruelest Month" make up a careful collection of recipes for surviving loss, separation, madness and fear.
Pilar Adón (National Narrative and Critics' Prize for her novel "Of Beasts and Birds") is considered one of the most solid figures of current narrative in the Spanish language. "The Cruelest Month" compiles...read more