Esta es tu casa

Jon Bilbao has spent years building a literary world with a house at its center: a family home in a northern fishing village, visible from across the estuary, perched atop a limestone massif riddled with caves. This Is Your House brings together nine stories that revolve around this house and those who inhabit it, covet it, or fear it. Within them coexist the post-war era and contemporary terror, the most exposed autofiction and the purest genre, childhood and the blockaded seas of the Six-Day War. What unites them is the house as an organism with its own memory, capable of welcoming or expelling, of guarding secrets or fabricating them. This Is Your House is the book with which Bilbao closes some circles and opens new ones. Readers who came to him through Basilisk, Stromboli, and The Strangers will recognize the same tension between refuge and threat, the same instinct for transforming the domestic into a realm of suspense, but will find here something more intimate and more unsettling.