La idea de volver

What if returning isn't about going back, but about remembering who you are? Fausto, an elderly mountain man, tries to understand the loss of his wife and the ghosts of his past from a life steeped in magic and ancestral wisdom. Meanwhile, Adrián, an academic who has built his career in New York, returns to his childhood home. His return, marked by a pivotal love affair, reawakens unresolved family ties and sets in motion a plot that revolves around an essential question: how do we construct reality? This revealing novel intertwines two seemingly opposing worlds: the rural tradition of Cantabria, nourished by mythology and inherited knowledge, and contemporary thought, dominated by technology, haste, and an obsessive belief in knowing everything. With agile and precise prose, the story engages with Platonic anamnesis and the Faustian tradition to explore the desire for knowledge and its limits, while inviting us to return to our origins to understand the reality in which we live and, perhaps, ourselves.