I remember Ruiz Zafon. It happens to me whenever I discover a novel that points to the esoteric aspect of books, to hidden languages, to that aroma of wisdom gathered on endless shelves perhaps in new cemeteries of books ...
And it's okay, so be it. The vast imagination of the Catalan writer is what he has ... But this time it is up to a Alfonso del Rio that again takes as the epicenter of its mysteries a Bilbao made to measure like Ruiz Zafón's Barcelona.
From the capital of Biscay to different European scenarios, also alternating different times. This is how a suggestive mystery is woven that leads and tricks us like the trick of a good conjurer.
Bilbao and Oxford, 1933. Gabriel de la Sota, writer and professor at the University of Oxford, is the heir to one of the greatest fortunes of Biscay, owner of a large steel company. But someone dark has discovered a dark secret from his past and is willing to do anything to sink it. CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien, your best friends, will be with you unconditionally so that you can create the best story ever written.
London, 1961. Mark Wallace, father of a ten-year-old girl who has a very special gift, is a renowned British lawyer about to retire. One day he receives a visit from the writer Úrsula de la Sota, who instructs him to investigate his family past and heritage: the international press has echoed that Gabriel de la Sota's fortune may not have been completely lost in 1933 and that the keys to knowing where he is can be found in his latest novel.
A story that travels between Oxford and Bilbao over more than thirty years and in which all the characters are connected by a mystery that was buried. And only those who manage to decipher the hidden language behind the pages of the greatest work of the famous writer will be able to reveal it.
A story about good and evil, about the love of truth and literature, about the strength of authentic friendship, which always accompanies and does not judge.
You can now buy the novel The Hidden Language of Books, by Alfonso del Río, here: