Castillos de carton (Tusquets Editores)

Maria Jose Sanchez works as an art appraiser in an auction house in Madrid. One day she receives a call from a former colleague and lover, Jaime Gonzalez, announced that its common friend, Marcos Molina Schulz, has committed suicide. The news not only returns the narrator to her time as an art student, when still dreamed of becoming a painter, it does revive the torrential love story that the 3 of them lived when she was twenty.16This is a tale of a time and a place, of Madrid in the 1980s, where the dullness of a forty-year dictatorship gives way to an explosion of life and color, and everything seems possible, and where a romantic triangle between three young painters has the apparent strength and the inner fragility of a cardboard castle.