An intimate insight into Spanish family life from one of the best and most original young writers of his generation.On a stormy night, Ruth waits to tell her husband Samuel that she is leaving him, as he's no longer the idealistic hero she once loved. Meanwhile their son Maceo listens to his grandfather's stories of the Civil War, and daughter Marta is no the phone, suffering from unrequited love. But when Maceo is then struck by lightening, the peculiar relationships within this secretive and frustrated family are suddenly illuminated. Benjamin Prado's great achievement is to imbue his narrative with an epic dimension, the family's interrelations mirroring the upheavals of 20th-century Spain.
