by Luisa Castro (Author)
Una tragedia familiar en forma de comedia.
El regreso a la novela de una autora multipremiada y con una voz inconfundible.
«Dónde estaba mi sangre de horchata ahora .
"Where was my horchata blood now?" Belén is sixteen years old and lives in a house of crazy people. Her father, very old and in a wheelchair, insists on starting to organize his enormous inheritance. Her brother seems to know things that everyone hides from her. There's also the problem that is her mother: who calls every now and then with bad coverage and does not visit the brothers since they were little, after she suffered an episode that ended in hospitalization. Belén just wants everything to be normal and follow the advice she has heard since she was a child: "Horchata blood, darling. Whatever happens, you must be cold-blooded". With the rhythm of a comedy and dramatic airs, Luisa Castro weaves a great novel about the breakup of a family and what we will never know about others: what happens behind closed doors.
Author Biography
LUISA CASTRO (Lugo, 1966) es poeta, columnista y novelista y escribe tanto en gallego como en castellano. Ha colaborado con medios como ABC, El País o El Mundo. Es autora de las novelas El somier (finalista del Premio Herralde), La fiebre amarilla, El secreto de la lejía (Premio Azorín), Viajes con mi padre y La segunda mujer (Premio Biblioteca Breve); del volumen de relatos Podría hacerte daño (Premio Torrente Ballester), y de poemarios como Los versos del eunuco (Premio Hiperión), Los hábitos del artillero (Premio Rey Juan Carlos) o Amor mi señor, entre otros. Actualmente dirige el Instituto Cervantes de Dublín. Sangre de horchata es su última novela.