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In this latest novel from the award-winning author of The Polyglot Lovers, a writer searching for inspiration in Spain goes on a darkly comic, delightfully absurd journey through an underground society.Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her ...

Losing her son in a lorry accident, a woman abandons her lover and her life on the Mexican border and becomes a domestic servant in Madrid, following an awkward ménage-à-trois, a timber agent is blackmailed into introducing his lover's boyfriend to his best client, a depressed, misfit French teacher rejects the overtures of students and would-be lovers, all the while sharp-eyed young Araceli watches over everything from her decrepit apartment.