Félix, still trying to get over his devastating split-up with Helena, takes advantage of being a walking double of Donovan – the king of the romantic song and idol of women everywhere – and devotes himself to passing himself off as the singer in Madrid’s nightspots. Until he meets Luz.
A novel of criss-crossing lives that come together in Madrid, written with a brilliant blend of registers ranging from the poetic to the humorous.
An urban tale of love, lovelessness, the bliss of complicity and desire, and the impossibility of perpetuating what is probably no more than a creation of our own.
Through its cast, El libro del amor esquivo tells of the shadowy borders of reality, a reality in which what is thought, imagined or dreamt ends up becoming the true essence of what we are, or what we believe we are.