Overview
La hechizante primera frase de esta novela ya dice mucho, quizá demasiado: «Nadie piensa nunca que pueda ir a encontrarse con una muerta entre los brazos y que ya no verá más su rostro cuyo nombre recuerda.»
Esto es lo que ocurre al narrador, Víctor Francés, guionista de televisión y «negro» o «escritor fantasma», encargado de redactar los discursos de la gente importante e ignorante. Recientemente divorciado, es invitado a cenar a su casa por Marta Téllez, mujer casada cuyo marido está de viaje y madre de un niño de dos años. Tras la cena galante, el hombre y la mujer pasan al dormitorio donde, «aún medio vestidos y medio desvestidos», ella empieza a sentirse mal hasta que agoniza y muere en una escena sobrecogedora.
Esa infidelidad no consumada se convierte así en una especie de «encantamiento» con problemas bien reales e inmediatos: qué hacer con el cadáver, avisar o no avisar, qué hacer respecto al marido, qué hacer con el niño dormido, qué diferencia hay entre la vida y la muerte.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
An intense and compelling novel about the issues that touch us all: concealment, facts, and intentions; acting without knowing and the will that so often fails us; the denial of those we once loved, forgetting and indecision; farewell, and ultimately, deception.
The mesmerizing opening line of this novel reveals much—perhaps too much: "No one ever imagines they might one day find themselves embracing a dead woman, never to see again the face whose name they still remember."
This is precisely what happens to the narrator, Víctor Francés, a television screenwriter and “ghostwriter” who crafts speeches for influential yet often uninformed public figures. Recently divorced, Víctor accepts an invitation to dinner from Marta Téllez, a married woman whose husband is away on business and the mother of a two-year-old son. After an intimate evening together, the two retreat to the bedroom where, still half-dressed and half-undressed, Marta suddenly falls ill. In a harrowing and unforgettable scene, she begins to die—and does.
Their unconsummated affair becomes a kind of haunting “spell,” forcing Víctor into an impossible moral dilemma with immediate and devastating consequences. What should he do with the body? Should he call for help or remain silent? How should he face the absent husband? What about the sleeping child? And where, in the end, does the boundary between life and death truly lie?
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