Los días perfectos

Luis, a journalist tired of his job and his marriage, plans to attend a conference in Austin, Texas. The trip is a mere alibi to briefly meet Camila, who has become the only attraction in his life. But when she is about to leave, she receives a message from him: "Let's leave it here, let's keep the memory". Heartbroken and not knowing what to do in Austin, he takes refuge in a college archive, where he happens to come across letters from William Faulkner to his lover Meta Carpenter. Reading this long correspondence helps you to reconstruct the memory of his love affair and to reflect on his tedious marriage, but also to wonder how you have to live to make each day worthwhile. With high doses of truth and humor and an enormous narrative force, Jacobo Bergareche drags the reader into this singular and captivating novel that universally explores the fever of falling in love and the inevitable routine of long-term relationships. A book whose exceptional solidity and originality reveal the author's literary maturity.