Javier Álvarez de la Gándara is a middle-aged man who has it all, attractiveness, money, wife, two daughters, employees, farms, houses, is he someone who moves in the most select environment of Madrid and whose luxuries are excessive? until one day they announce the fall of Lehman Brothers and his entire fortune collapses, he has to fire several employees, sell properties at a loss and try to maximize resources in an attempt to alleviate the drama of losing the acquired status, his wife leaves him (or had he already abandoned it?). There is hardly any hope left for him, a small investment in Iceland, which he had entered into years ago more because of the attractiveness of its land - whose nudity and nature produce a seduction in him that he is unable to explain, and which also allows him the possibility of fishing Salmon? than for conceiving it as a promising business. Although soon this investment is also questioned before the bankruptcy of the country and the uncertainty about its situation.
And yet, Javier feels like the happiest man in the world, he discovers that his luxuries, his money, his status, are not everything when he meets Lucía and begins a new life in which he rediscovers the pleasure of small details, a new life that makes you look at the world with new eyes and a perspective whose luxuries are small acquisitions. But in the following days he will discover that this new life can also contain falls.
José Luis de Hinojosa has constructed an ambitious novel about loss, small pleasures, love and hope. A novel that catches you in a vitalistic and intoxicating song about everything we ultimately call life.