Eldorado

A town of the South in 1960 Spain cornered between the chasticism of the Old Regime and the cosmopolitanism of the Prodigious Decade. The characters in the book are the young people who in February 1956 rose up for the first time against the status quo established by the Civil War. The same people who, twenty-five years later, took over the reins of democratic Spain. Fernando Sánchez Dragó is then a young, poor, happy and disciple of Hemingway, who has just separated and arrives in Torremolinos so determined to devour the world. The Costa del Sol was born then and, with it, a new lifestyle that no longer exists but whose aroma remains. There he will meet a nineteen-year-old woman who reminds him of Natalie Wood from Splendor on the Grass and will fall madly in love with her. He courts her, lets himself be wooed and so they will spend six weeks of sun, salt, pitas, rags, gin, romanticism, rebellion and southern love... But she will resist having a relationship with him due to the marital status of who with so much impetus requires it. For this reason, the twenty-year-old Dragó, will shut himself up to torrentially write these pages, in just twenty-three days, in order to conquer it. The young man who once was still today persecutes the author with the maxim that governs his life: "They loved each other, know it". Destruction or love. That, and much more, is Eldorado.