by Gonzalo Torné · Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439723837
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«Hilos de sangre» is the contemporary novel by Gonzalo Torné, published by Random House in paperback (480 pages, in Spanish).
Clara, a Barcelona woman in her early thirties, is going through a relationship crisis and family estrangement. Faced with her grandfather Gabriel's illness, she delves into the papers he leaves her and traces her memory back to her grandfather's youth in Barcelona during the Civil War and postwar period, in a story spanning eighty years of family secrets.
Published in 2010, it won the XXVI Jaén Novel Prize and belongs to the Literatura Mondadori / Mondadori Literature collection.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction interested in family memory and the recent history of Spain.
Gonzalo Torné is a Spanish writer. He was born in Barcelona in 1976. He has published three novels: Hilos de sangre, Divorcio en el aire (2013), and Años felices (2017). He has also written a literary study titled Tres maestros (2012) where he analyzes the works of Saul Bellow, V. S. Naipaul and Javier Marías. As a translator, he has translated Samuel Johnson, William Wordsworth and John Ashbery into Spanish. His own works have been translated into multiple European languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Catalan.
