No entres dócilmente en esa noche quieta

This book begins in the room where a man is dying while his son, the writer Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, searches the last landscape that his father has contemplated a revelation that perhaps does not exist. Do not enter docilely in that still night is an offering, an elegy and an atonement; the attempt to reconstruct an existence that walks towards maturity, that of the one who writes, through an existence that has been exhausted without remedy, and that of the one who gave him life. Like Philip Roth in Heritage, like Amos Oz in A Story of Love and Darkness, like Peter Handke in Unfortunate Misfortune, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón dives into the waters of family history to explain himself through the lights and shadows of his father. The result is a text that covers the rooms of heroism and misery, kindness and disdain, joy and illness, and that gives us a document of contained emotion and ardent honesty.