Los colores del adiós

This book brings together nine dazzling stories that present a detailed catalog of human attitudes and emotions. It starts with some pioneering scientists in the field of artificial intelligence in communist Germany, with the Stasi and the remorse in the background, and other stories follow: that of the man who impassively witnesses the evolution of the romance of a young neighbor whom he gave classes as a child, sensing that it cannot end well; that of the son who discovers the true face of his mother during a summer vacation on an island and thus also discovers himself; the one about the music teacher who has a chance meeting with a woman with whom he was in love, from which a secret emerges and perhaps the possibility of going back to the past; the one of the stepfather who faces the desire of his lesbian daughter to have offspring; that of the man who must come to terms with the death of his brother, who has been almost a stranger to him...