This loosely connected trilogy delves into the intricate relationships and inner lives of women navigating the complexities of their pasts and searching for self-discovery. The author skillfully blends the nostalgia for childhood innocence with the realities of adult life, exploring the tension between the desire to move forward and the urge to revisit the past. Set against a backdrop of societal shifts, these works offer profound meditations on the passage of time, memory, and the pursuit of authenticity.
Poetic and erotic, El mismo mar de todos los veranos (The Same Sea As Every Summer) was originally published in Spain in 1978, three years after the death of Franco and in the same year that government censorship was abolished. Now its complex moods and rhythms have been caught in an English translation by Margaret E. W. Jones that has won the Kayden National Translation Award.