Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Late February 2022, the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.Viktor Romanovsky, a literary translator from Spanish living in a suburb of Kyiv, finds himself in a situation where he must help a neighbor evacuate her and her children from under shelling. This is how he ends up in Poland, and soon afterward in a small mountain town in southern Spain, where he continues working on his translation of the novel 2666-Roberto Bolaño’s dark epic, predicted to become a herald of 22nd-century literature.The search for the mysterious writer Archimboldi, the serial murders of women in the fictional city of Santa Teresa on the U.S.-Mexico border, and much else become intertwined in Romanovsky’s mind with the events unfolding in his homeland. Unexpectedly, he too finds himself drawn into a search-this time for a painting he happens to come across in the Prado Museum...In the deeply lyrical narrative Ana on the Porch, literature becomes both a refuge and a battlefield, as well as the inspiration for a love the protagonist certainly did not expect to find in Spain-yet found nonetheless.This book is a kind of meditation, an attempt to answer the question of what it means to live, create, and love during a bloody war fought for the right to be free.
