Turkish writer Emin Kemal was in the midst of a career decline when he dies under strange circumstances. Implicated in the writers death, his Spanish translator finds himself caught up in a plot that will force him to uncover his own past and the life of Emin Kemal in Istambul, and in the center stands an ambitious woman neither of them can escape. This novel by Premio Alfaguara Luis Leante is a carefully crafted house of mirrors, a disquieting tale of the role identity and literature play in our existence. It is a story of secrets and passions, of the love for books, for stories, for storytelling.