A news stand on the promenade in Benidorm, once filled with newspapers and customers, has now become a symbol of abandonment and decadence. And two women who work in it, in morning and afternoon shifts: Pilar, daughter of the fisherman who opened the news stand in the mid-20th century, who lives with her invalid sister; and a nameless young woman from the faraway Basque Country who has come for a summer job there, perhaps fleeing from her inner turmoil.
In telling us about two parallel solitudes, the author gives us an incisive portrait of today’s society: fuzzy identities, unclear relationships, a rudderless life without goals or hope… Lizar Begoña displays a vision and a style of her own in her first novel, written thanks to the Igartza prize.