This is a novel, but also the faithful portrait of a whole era, a sharp description of what was happening in Spanish professional cycling in the years before and after the sadly famous Operation Mountain Pass.

É um romance, mas também o retrato fiel de toda uma época, uma pungente descrição do que acontecia no ciclismo profissional espanhol nos anos anteriores e posteriores à tristemente conhecida Operación Puerto.

Irene war ein auf die einzige Art und Weise jener Zeit glückliches Kind, die von Krieg, Armut und Angst geprägt war.

Irene was a happy child, in the only way a child could be happy during that period, scarred by war, poverty and fear.