Powerful and moving – a great novel about family ties and the pitfalls of memory
When Luis was still a child, his parents were often compared to Richard Burton and Liz Taylor. They were the dazzling couple in an otherwise stuffy environment: beautiful, successful, full of passion – and also alcoholics who were constantly hurling plates at each other. The marriage war waged on for years, with Luis in the middle, until a tragic accident brought it to an end.
Soon after that, Luis, a master of repression, had radically cut all ties to his family and since then has been living another life in another country. But then, twenty years later, in a gallery in Berlin, he comes across a painting he had forged that had a fatal connection to his mother’s death.
And this unexpected reunion with the painting feels like a twist of fate that finally gives him a chance to face the past that defined him, his relationships and, above all, their failure, more than he was ever willing to admit.
And so Luis begins a journey through his memories and back to his roots, to the three most important relationships in his life. Maybe now, after all these years of denial, can he finally come to terms with his parents and their influence on his life.
