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After a time abroad, Elaia returns to her hometown to write a novel. She wants to tell her family's story, a tapestry of lives marked by war, dictatorship, and the hardships of rural Andalusia. As inherited silences are broken, a living memory emerges that, more than about the past, has much to say about the present. And it also comes to heal a wound: the unresolved grief over the death of her grandmother, from whom she was never able to say goodbye.

Azahara Palomeque listens to the stories held within the houses and olive groves, and returns to us those absent voices that speak of defiant loves and liberating journeys, of the loyalties and betrayals that govern a small world. A moving and groundbreaking novel in which the oral and the poetic are meticulously interwoven in a song to roots, to affections, and to the futures that can still be imagined.

Azahara Palomeque studied Journalism and Audiovisual Communication at Carlos III University of Madrid. In 2009, she moved to the United States, where, after completing a master's degree, she earned her doctorate from Princeton University with a dissertation on the Spanish exile in Latin America. Author of four poetry collections and a book of chronicles, she gained recognition with the essay *Vivir peor que nuestros padres* (Anagrama, 2023) and the novel *Huracán de negras palomas* (La Moderna, 2023). She has worked as a journalist, distinguished by her highly personal style that blends analytical and lyrical elements; she is currently a columnist for *El País* . Before returning to Spain in 2022, she was a professor of Philosophy and International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Córdoba.