La España vacía

A title that is now recent history arrives in the Alfaguara catalogue: the book that changed the way we look at depopulation and pointed it out as a crucial phenomenon for understanding Spain today. The label "Empty Spain" generated a new conversation, reached political programs, filled bookstores and cultural spaces, and has ended up becoming a fixed section of the media and electoral agendas. The subject of "the rural" and "the urban" once again became a literary genre that gave rise to an enormous bibliography and also revitalized the essay for the younger generation of writers and readers. Empty Spain speaks of a large part of our country, but also of the entire Western world, where life in towns is increasingly separated from urban life; It talks about resources, about politics, about literature and traditions, about the past and the future, and about each one of us, about our history and our stories.