La Biblia según Dios

El mundo placentero de Imogen, hija del señor de Carrisfod, se desmorona una noche cuando la violencia y la muerte irrumpen en su castillo. Muerto su padre, conquistada su tierra, Imogen se convierte en el más preciado botín de guerra: cualquiera que se

Dulce Nombre is a novella by Spanish author Concha Espina, who was nominated for a Nobel prize in literature twenty-five times during her life. Espina went blind in 1940 but managed to keep writing despite it.

Cuando la realidad parece enredarse entre fabulas y mitos, cuando el sentido común se ve destrozado ante esta verdad y cuando ya no queda más, qué hacer? Lejos de toda imaginación y mentiras, los sucesos sobrenaturales que golpean a los habitantes de un pueblo carecen de explicación y sentido. Y a pesar de que todos saben quién es el culpable de sus desdichas, no hay mucho que puedan hacer sino esperar.

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...