In Blanca's absence

Author's name: Antonio Muñoz Molina

One day, Mario, an architectural draftsman, returns to his apartment in Jaén, which he has shared with his wife, Blanca, for six years. He finds that another woman, almost identical in features and gestures, has taken her place. He begins to sift through memories and examine clues, trying to discover the reasons for her absence, or somehow summon her again. Has Blanca really left? And what is she searching for in the worlds she is immersed in, which Mario is forbidden to enter? In this intense and engaging novel, Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina delves deeply into the relationship between a man and a woman whose destinies intersected before their world began to shake under the influence of differences and the monotony of life. Molina sheds light on the complexity of romantic relationships and the conflicts experienced by couples who love in their partners today what they may hate in them tomorrow...