Tantas cosas dicen

A French student who travels to Madrid to interview Francisco Umbral, the crossed wishes of a group of friends who meet every year in a rural house, another who is not invited to the meeting, the vagaries of a Parisian newsstand who attends the arrival of an illustrious member of the Latin American boom or the way in which climate change can alter the behavior of dogs, these are some of the themes and characters that Juan Bautista Durán summons in So many things they say, his long-awaited new book of stories.