Two women in Prague

Author's name: Juan José Millás

"I thought that what didn't happen in people's lives has a greater impact than what did. Each of us carries within us 'something that didn't happen,' meaning something that didn't happen to us, yet it represents more importance in our lives than 'something that did,' that is, what actually happened. There are people who are mysteriously loyal to 'something that didn't' and abandon 'something that did.' I thought to myself: I was a skilled investigative writer, but what represented importance in my life wasn't the investigations for which I won awards, but rather a novel that doesn't exist. Each of us has a wound that oozes because of 'something that didn't,' so that 'something that did,' however great, cannot heal it."

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Between a writer who decided to live and write with her left side, a widow searching for someone to write her biography, and a writer haunted by the question of identity, Mayyas constructs a narrative labyrinth woven from irony and dark humor. The narrator doesn't stand outside the story, but rather intertwines with the characters and events in a masterful game of mirrors, where the narrator and the protagonists exchange roles until the reader becomes part of this ambiguous fabric. "Two Women in Prague" is a novel about loneliness and the desire for belonging, and about the stories we invent to understand who we are.