No hay que hablar mucho

Between the first glass of wine and the last spoonful of dessert, there's more than enough room for two lives and all their intricacies. Lucas Sánchez's debut novel, "No hay que hablar mucho", revolves around a birthday lunch between a father and son. During this encounter, in which almost nothing is explicit, the dynamics of a relationship marked by unspoken understandings, distance, silent grief, and a learned, almost inherited, way of being in the world unfold. Lucas Sánchez's prose is reminiscent of Zadie Smith in its narrative intelligence and of Miqui Otero in the tenderness that shines through his gaze. "No hay que hablar mucho" ventures into the vast desert of masculinity through the eyes of a young man who is beginning to question it and through the eyes of the man who taught him how to embody it.