Ava en la noche

David, a young man who has spent the first years of his life breathing the Mediterranean air, leaves his city to settle in Madrid and fulfill a dream: to meet Ava Gardner and become a film director. Upon arrival, he presented himself at the School of Cinematography determined to pass the entrance exams. It is the early sixties and in Spain a whole world related to art, cinema and literature enjoys glamorous, fun and extraordinarily free nights. Movie nights followed by days when the reality of the country is drowning covered by the dark and repressive patina of the Franco dictatorship. Fiction and reality intersect in this novel set in the recent history of Spain. With his usual mastery, Manuel Vicent portrays in Ava at night the unstable border between a dark and declining time and another that, with the first winds of change, is already looming on the horizon.