La vida privada de los héroes

A screenwriter who follows the example of his older brother and goes on a trip to India with his partner to realize the dream of their lives; a group of friends who organize a meal in a house with a garden in La Majada to celebrate that they have nothing to celebrate; a woman who returns from a long season in a town in Switzerland convinced that she has become someone else; a photographer who leaves Spain to become someone else; a waiter who works in a restaurant with a Filipino who says he knows Bolaño; a doctor who, weeks before marriage, discovers that she cannot get pregnant; A woman who visited Chiapas when she was young and after ten years received the visit of two Mexicans; an actor who does not act; a writer who does not write; a real estate agent who drives a bicycle through the streets of Malasaña and meets an old boyfriend and tells him what has become of his life until they say goodbye and she continues on her way and he returns home, 'the only place in the world where he feels safe from everything and everyone'. They are the heroes of this modern epic. People who fight, who resist, who risk, who succumb. Men and women who face the changes and instability that govern their lives, coping with frustration and trying to look ahead. La Majada will be the mythical territory through which all the characters of this collection of minimal stories that read like a novel in progress will transit. Catalog of failures and hopes, collective chronicle and disguised autobiography, The private life of the heroes is a group portrait, without filters or retouching, in which the strangest thing would be not to recognize each other.