La vida anterior de los delfines

According to the beliefs of the first Basques, those who fell in love with the lamias, mythological beings with an appearance similar to that of the sirens, became dolphins. It was the price they had to pay for their daring. A radical change that happened overnight, like the start of a journey to an uncertain destination. Similarly, the life of migrants also changes when they cross the border of their country and, once started, the path becomes another, very different from the one imagined. Three stories intersect through the pages of The Former Life of Dolphins: the fate of the unfinished book that the feminist Edith Wynner dedicated to Rosika Schwimmer, an activist, pacifist and suffragette nominated on several occasions for the Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the relationship between these two extraordinary women during the first half of the 20th century; the experiences of a Basque emigrant family in present-day New York against the political and social background of the stormy end of the Trump era, and the reminiscences of the friendship between two girls in the small coastal town where the narrator grew up with a group of women revolutionaries in the 1970s and 1980s.