After the success of Fine Rain, Landero is back with his own memories and reading of his universe, in this memorable book that beautifully traces memories as a child in Extremadura, a teenager recently arrived in Madrid and a young man beginning his working life, with stories and situations displayed in the book with the same passion and voracity as the real world. Here the reader finds characters from the present who seem from the past, full of truth: the hyperactive women who sustain the family such as the narrator's grandmother; the quiet men who suddenly reveal unexpected secrets. All these characters are converted into doubles of the characters from Ulysses, congeners of Kafka or Stendhal, and companions for a brilliant reflection on wiring and creativity in a unique mix of humour and poetry, evocation and charm.