Four stories, set in different settings but with a similar atmosphere, comprise the microcosm that Clara Pastor masterfully and sensitively recreates in this volume. This microcosm is made up of the wanderings of memory, which branch out into endless paths, and of the characters' attempts to bridge the distance—sometimes an abyss—that often separates them from those closest to them. The protective net of family and childhood homes thus become a longed-for refuge of memory from the disenchantments of adult life, but also invisible cobwebs. Subtle and suggestive, the stories in Voices at Dawn reveal themselves to the reader with the familiarity of a shared secret.