La última mirada de Goya

In 1888, the Spanish consul in Bordeaux, Joaquín Pereyra, prepared to expatriate the body of the distinguished Francisco de Goya to Spain, who had died in exile sixty years earlier. But an unexpected discovery ruins his plans: upon opening the crypt they will discover that the painter's skeleton is missing its head. Who and why has desecrated the tomb? Pereyra hires the services of the most famous detective in Paris to find Goya's skull, which will lead them to investigate the artist's life in Bordeaux and his adventures with other Spanish exiles who opposed Ferdinand VII and, also, in his family intimacy in the company of Leocadia Zorrilla, his last love, and his daughter Rosario. But this family routine also includes, for various reasons, two young people who helped the painter fulfill his last wishes: Juliet, a governess as passionate as she is independent, and Diego "El Niño", a brave bodyguard who protected the painter's life. of all those who wanted to put an end to him. And Goya, although deaf and almost blind, never stopped being that brilliant and charismatic genius who attracted all kinds of conflicting interests, from hired assassins to jilted husbands... Based on the real event of the disappearance of Goya's skull From his grave in Bordeaux, Javier Alandes composes a dizzying, agile and vibrant novel, which combines reality and fiction, action and emotion, deeply addictive, which speaks of the redemptive capacity of art and the desire to safeguard everything it represents.